[LINK] "We’ve a crazy system where publishers own and control knowledge"

[Roger Clarke]

> On 22/3/24 22:06, John Mann wrote:
>> While we are at it, can we please have free open access to Australian 
>> Standards?

On 23/3/2024 09:52, Tom Worthington replied:
> No. Standards Australia licensed distribution of its standards to a for 
> profit company. Who personally benefited from that is something which 
> would merit investigation. 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_Australia#Licensing_of_the_sale_of_standards
>
> I suggested standards be made free, but got no support for the idea, so 
> stopped having anything to do with SA: 
> https://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/11/australian-and-international-standards.html

Firstly, a prosaic response:

I actually had to buy an ISO standard the other day.

(ISO 24760-2:2015 - Id Mngt - Reference architecture and requirements)

It wasn't even for income-earning purposes.  I'm finally completing an 
article on what we got wrong with Id Mngt, and still keep getting wrong, 
and I need to be able to quote reliably from it.

The pricing politics and policies are interesting.  Prices for a 
download of a PDF from ISO, SA and various other national standards 
bodies were mostly in the range AUD 300-350.  I picked Sweden at 240.


My second response follows, another libel about the Standards game.


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