[michele_f]

I'm not sure whether that is a viable option: after all ISO is a company. But it always stroke me as a paradox the fact that in order to be compliant to standards, one should buy their specifications. Certainly, removing such financial barrier will positively contribute to a quicker adoption and convergence of/to standards.

At the same time, I don't buy in the narrative that sees the ISO organization not wanting precisely that. Therefore I suspect that the current way of promoting standards is unfortunately the best system we've came up to achieve such goal.