Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto-01.txt

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:38:52 +0000

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:10:01AM -0400,
 [email-masked] <[email-masked]> wrote 
 a message of 92 lines which said:

> 	Title           : Guidelines for Free Standards in the IETF
> 	Author(s)       : S. Josefsson
> 	Filename        : draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto-01.txt

> Unfortunately, we are not aware of any precise academic definition
> of a free standard.

But there is some work on it. See:

http://www.perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html

http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3761

http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html

http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/an_emerging_understanding_of_open_standards
(the one I prefer)

> A traditional example that has been regarded as a problem in the
> IETF community are ISO/ITU standards, which are available for a fee

ITU-T standards are now gratis (but not ITU-R ones). See
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/21.html

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