[LINK] Media Release: Call for Australian Standards to be free to Australian

[JLWhitaker]

On 24/01/2019 8:15 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>
> With regard to payment, I don't think it is appropriate for Standards 
> Australia to pay for this but the committees do need broad 
> representation and funding mechanisms for this to happen do need to be 
> put in place. 

Isn't NIST a government agency in the US?
Answer: yes. Their website has a tag that because of lapsing of their 
funding (the current shutdown) some of the site is not available.
It's part of the Department of Commerce.

https://www.nist.gov/

I'm not finding actual standards documents, though. But LOTS of 
information about how and why to be compliant and requirements, etc. It 
appears that you need to go into each topical area and the standards are 
managed by those subset groups, like forensics is by OSAC. 
https://www.nist.gov/topics/organization-scientific-area-committees-forensic-science 
BUT the actual standards are by subscription through ASTM.

https://www.astm.org/ABOUT/overview.html

So after all those rabbit holes, I end up in the same dead end of $$$$ 
as we have here. What a short-sighted pity.

Some groups, very rarely, are making their standards available for free! 
Wow! How nice of them. Actually, it is, given the rest of the bodies who 
don't.

Jan


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