You need to think it through further. Where do the member bodies get this money from? No, they aren't all taxpayer funded. In some countries they are entirel

You need to think it through further. Where do the member bodies get this money from? No, they aren't all taxpayer funded. In some countries they are entirely private organizations. ANSI is a non-profit private company, for example. And the ones that are are taxpayer funded are not necessarily wholly so. The BSI gets grants from the U.K. government, for example, but is far from wholly funded by it. Standards Australia made just under AUD7 millions in 2017 (for example) from selling copies of standards, via subcontractor publisher SAI. This was just under a quarter of its total revenue for the year. Nearly all that would be gone were ISO to start giving away copies for free, and yet SA would be expected to pay an extra AUD0.1 million in ISO fees at the same time. * https://www.standards.org.au/about/governance/annual-reviews https://www.standards.org.au/about/governance/annual-reviews So what's your proposal for making up for this lost revenue stream as well as paying higher ISO fees? Across all of those 165 countries.