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- From: Mike Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>
- To: KenNorth <KenNorth@email.msn.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:30:38 -0700
Recently I bought an ISO spec online through the ANSI web store
(http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp). I can't remember which
one it was (so many specs these days), but I do remember that it was about
1/3 of the cost listed on the ISO site. The spec on the ISO site was offered
in print via mail only whereas ANSI offered it as was PDF only.
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: KenNorth [mailto:KenNorth@email.msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:10 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: sunshine and standards development
Rick Jelliffe writes:
> As some-one else has noted, ISO (and national standards bodies) have
> faced a real problem with the advent of the WWW that they funded
> themselves largely by publication charges. This is not a business model
> that can compete against WWW feebies:
ISO may be awakening. It's experimenting with a web store, and member
standards organization have created web stores.
It costs $18 US to buy the C++ standard from ANSI. I wonder whether the
pricing is uniform across all member organizations. If I were to buy from
the British Standards Institute, for example, would I pay an equivalent
price?
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