The people who will pay will be the same people who currently pay.The authors of standards are usually not paid by the standards bodies and get no royalties. Th

The people who will pay will be the same people who currently pay.The authors of standards are usually not paid by the standards bodies and get no royalties. They and their companies even have to pay for the travel required. The technical reviewers are also often not paid by the standards bodies. The purpose of the current system is to defray the costs of the printing press, since there was no other way to disseminate information 100 years ago. Now that we have the Internet, paying for individual standards is unjustifiable and should be ended. This is made worse because of the increasing number of standards that effect anything useful. Countless problems have happened because people cannot affordably access the hundreds of standards they are supposed to be using.