ISO calls standards that are freely available to the public as "publicly available". It's even in the URL for their list: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/Publicl

ISO calls standards that are freely available to the public as "publicly available". It's even in the URL for their list: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ So using ISO's own terminology, standards available to the public are "publicly available". IN ADDITION: I think that's the right terminology. If a standard is not freely available to the public, it is NOT publicly available. When there were only a few standards, and you had to pay for expensive typesetting to get a paper document, the costs made sense. But in the modern world we need to use a massive number of standards, there is no need for the typesetting (or the paper), and the people who developed the standards are not being paid by ISO's royalties. The standards world is nothing like publishing fiction (where the author is normally paid). All standards should be publicly available.