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At 2003-09-21 08:27 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >Apologies if this has come up already and I missed it, but is ISO >really seriously considering charging royalties for the *use* of their >standards? Here is a response from Tim B-L: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2003JulSep/0213 Yesterday in Canada's TCIT (Technical Committee on Information Technology) a post was circulated citing two news copies of what appears to be the same article regarding this: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5079256.htm http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5079256.html >I don't know the suborganizations and procedures well enough to know >if this was just a wacky proposal from left field (that never has a >chance of being seriously considered), or if there is a real >possibility that ISO would actually do something like this. It certainly is a break from past practice, but many ISO and JTC1 committees have been created over the years to try and address the changing marketplace for standards documents that has impacted on the early business models that used to sustain the ISO machinery. Nothing in these past committees saw the light of day. I think W3C has done the right thing to try and nip this in the bud. I'll be proposing a response from the Canadian member body to ISO, the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), to obtain from ISO a copy of the formal recommendation and understand its status. A response can then be made directly to the recommendation and not indirectly based on news reports and citations from other organizations. .............. Ken -- Next public US delivery: 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2003-10-13 Next public European delivery: 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2003-11-?? Instructor-led on-site corporate, government & user group training for XSLT and XSL-FO world-wide: please contact us for the details G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-11-X Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Member of the XML Guild of Practitioners: http://XMLGuild.info Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/bc
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