[shmerl]

"Standards that have to be purchased". Someone is just trying to fleece the participants. That's what whole DRM is about most of the time.

[tverbeure]

Standards are often cheap. Many tech companies have a subscription to all IEEE papers and standards. The incremental cost of downloading one standard more is in the noise. But even if you don't have a subscription, the price for, say, the 802.11n standard is only $381.