> But let's assume ISO would publish only high-quality standards. Wouldn't those be worth their salt? Paying ISO has nothing to do with creating or distributin

> But let's assume ISO would publish only high-quality standards. Wouldn't those be worth their salt? Paying ISO has nothing to do with creating or distributing the standards. The developers of the standards are, in all cases I know of, not paid by ISO. I agree that there needs to be some money for infrastructure. It shouldn't cost very much for a PDF hosting service for publicly-available PDF.