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I agree that "attack against ISO" is premature. What I
knew about this topic as of 2003-09-20 is summarized in
"Standards Organizations Express Concern
About Royalty Fees for ISO Codes"
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-20-a.html
Please provide updates to me via email.
Thanks,
Robin Cover
[writing as an individual]
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Robin Cover
XML Cover Pages
WWW: http://xml.coverpages.org
Newsletter: http://xml.coverpages.org/newsletter.html
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, David Megginson wrote:
> G. Ken Holman writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Thanks, Ken -- it's good to know that you're following this up. I
> think it will be good for us to have more information before anyone
> goes on the attack against ISO.
>
> The issue is very relevant to this forum not only because a lot of us
> use the language and country codes in our work, but because XML itself
> acknowledges its dependence on an ISO standard.
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> David
>
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