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lethalbit
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This might just be me being a joyless communist, but I think that all technical standards should be freely accessible.

Or even as a "middle" ground, all withdrawn, superseded, and "no-longer-relevant" ones should be released into the public domain.

srxl
@srxl

there is nothing standard about a specification that is unable to be accepted by some within it's domain, especially not because they do not possess the means to access their definitions

or, worded differently: how do you expect me to accept your standard if you will not tell me how it is specified?

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dgelessus
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In the EU, this is actually the case! There was an EU court judgment about this recently:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-06/cp230110en.pdf
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-03/cp240041en.pdf

Apparently there wasn't a lot of English-language press coverage about this, but it was in the German news in a couple of places, e. g.:
https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-Entscheid-Europaeische-Normen-muessen-gratis-zugaenglich-sein-9646757.html

Sadly, the practical implementation of "freely accessible" is quite limited. CEN/CENELEC has a web page at https://has.standards.eu/ that provides access to the standards in question, but if I'm reading it right:

  • it (currently?) only covers the 4 specific standards (related to toy safety) that were the subject of the court case
  • access is provided via the individual national standards bodies, who may implement geo-blocking
  • the standards are only provided for online reading - they claim you're not even allowed to download or print them
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