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Re: BCP97bis

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 17 October 2021 02:31 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: BCP97bis
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It appears that Brian E Carpenter  <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> said:
>If I have this right (and Scott Bradner will probably correct me if
>I'm wrong), the basic rules in RFC2026 section 7.1.1 recognize the reality
>that some open standards are essential and unavoidable references which
>are not available free of charge to the general public.
>
>To be clear, the phrase "open standard" in that section doesn't
>mean "free of charge". (Long essay on what it *does* mean elided.)

As I am sure you are aware, our model of giving away copies of our
standards for free used to be extremely unusual, and is still far from
universal. Historically, SDOs like ANSI and ISO got a lot of their
funding from selling paper copies of their standards. I have a bunch
of paper ANSI standards that I bought a long time ago, at their office
in Times Square and paid with a paper check.

R's.
John

PS: It probably would be best not to inquire too closely about the status of RFC 20.

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