Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?

Re:Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive? by jetti on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:51PM (#20178035)

Do you have examples of those standards organizations? The only other one that I have first hand experience with is ANSI and I know they charge for their standards. I have been dealing with X12 EDI and some of the standards for that are close to $1000 and that is for a single file format. The health care X12 standard has dozens of file format standards.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive? by dragonwriter on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:53PM (#20178055)

> Do you have examples of those standards organizations?

WHATWG, IETF, W3C. Not that each doesn't have other issues, but charging through the nose for standards isn't one of them.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive? by jetti on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:14PM (#20178191)

Thanks. I'm not sure why I was blanking on IETF and W3C. I was not familiar with WHATWG.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive? by kelsolaar on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:06AM (#20181761)

ITU standards are usually available free of charge too.

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