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I'm not sure about the numbers but I would have thought that ISOs main funding comes from all the member nations who pay a bunch a money proportional to the cou

• Santosh83 5y ago
  So they're funded by dozens of nations yet charge a fee to access their so-called Public Standards? Operational costs cannot be covered by the member countries? After all, public standards benefit everyone, and is the raison d'etre for the ISO to be constituted in the first place. A corporate paywall makes sense, not from an org acting for the public.
• JyrkiAlakuijala 5y ago
  National standardization organisations participating in ISO usually make their budgets publicly available. Last time I looked I got an impression that the standards sales are contributing to their budgets (perhaps 1/3 or 1/4 of income). From the annual reports it was a bit unclear why the usual national standardization organization need to have wealth in $50M (instead of between 100'000 and a million) for being able to continue distributing standards.