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

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Thu Jan 24 18:58:19 AEDT 2019


> 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. 

The absence of advocates for the relevant public interests has been a 
major problem with the standards process in Australia, and many of us 
gave up on it as a bad joke years ago.

An example that's fresh in my mind is the appallingly weak requirements 
of structural timbers in this country.  Germanic, but also many other 
European countries, look in disbelief at the undried, warp-in-3-months 
softwoods that pass for usable timber here.

I've argued for civil society to prepare and publish its own standards:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/CSSD.html


On 24/1/19 08:51, JLWhitaker wrote:

> Isn't NIST a government agency in the US?  > Answer: yes.   https://www.nist.gov/
> I'm not finding actual standards documents, though ...

At least some of the important NIST Standards are gratis, e.g.:
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-30/rev-1/final


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