Re: I-D Action:draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto-01.txt

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:10:01AM -0400,
 Internet-Draftsietf.org <Internet-Draftsietf.org> wrote 
 a message of 92 lines which said:

> 	Title           : Guidelines for Free Standards in the
IETF
> 	Author(s)       : S. Josefsson
> 	Filename        :
draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto-01.txt

> Unfortunately, we are not aware of any precise academic
definition
> of a free standard.

But there is some work on it. See:

h
ttp://www.perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html

http://eu
ropa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3761

http://www.csrst
ds.com/openstds.html

http://www.fsfe.org
/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/an_emerging_understanding_of_
open_standards
(the one I prefer)

> A traditional example that has been regarded as a
problem in the
> IETF community are ISO/ITU standards, which are
available for a fee

ITU-T standards are now gratis (but not ITU-R ones). See
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/21.html


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