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It seems to me the current structure of ISO being a private body is fundamentally untenable. Obviously it costs money to develop standards and regulations, but
by xxpor 3y ago
It seems to me the current structure of ISO being a private body is fundamentally untenable. Obviously it costs money to develop standards and regulations, but the budget should come from governments paying to develop standards they want. I don't think we benefit from a competitive landscape today in the private standards industry. For the most part, it seems like there's effectively one body that produces them for a continent anyway (ANSI for NA, ISO for EU/ROW). Keep the competition in the testing/certification space.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoI think most ISO standards aren't legally mandated, which would be the distinction here. I think it's fair to require free access to laws, or parts thereof.
- euroderf 3y agoCan this be generalized to: The privatization and consequent monetization - in any way, manner, or form - of publicly-mandated requirements is.. evil^H^H^H^H vigorously contrary to the pubic interest. Restated: Any law (and consequent mandate) is a public law, and any less-than-public variant is bogus, and subject to punishment-free leaks.