[tialaramex]

ISO exists at the whim of the sovereign entities. You are most likely a citizen of one (or perhaps even more) of the entities that ensure ISO continues to exist, and could ask them to get ISO to give away the standards documents.

Of course if the money does not come from ISO selling documents, it would need to come from tax revenue. In reality however it was scheduled the real money comes from the richest countries, as they're most able to afford it, your politicians may have the opinion that even a modest sum expended in this way would be justified by their opponents as profligate...