You want everybody to have access, but you don't want them to get it for free.
Wow, so you want the entire world to all pay for the material you were given for free. Hmmmm.
You want everybody to have access, but you don't want them to get it for free.
Wow, so you want the entire world to all pay for the material you were given for free. Hmmmm.
Granted, a lot of work goes into these standards, and they don't come out of nowere, still
It gets even worse. I am working on software that confirms to guidelines set by the Dutch government for handling healthcare data. These Dutch national standards were actually (and justly!) made free instead of available at a fee because they became requirements instead of just guidelines. But these standards are (naturally) based on international standards. This is fine for the RFC's that are freely available, but for the three (!) relevant Dutch standards (NEN 7510, 7512, 7513) you would need access to another forty-ish (!!) ISO standards that may, or may not, be relevant to the section you are dealing with.
Of course even a single PDF for these healthcare ISO standards costs up to €100, to be paid in Swiss Francs…
It's not perfect, but it allowed me to implement an RFID data decoding library (ISO-28560) at my last job.
I really hope the final standard didn't have any substantive changes, so that my implementation is correct. But all I can really do is cross my fingers since it at least seems to work with available data.
Charging for standards has a direct negative effect on the proliferation of those standards, especially today when a lot of code is written as open source hobby projects, which are left out in the cold.
Then, once you've found a source, always remember to bookmark it and save a copy. They disappear from search indices quickly, despite the site still being around. It also helps to repeat your search periodically as sometimes the "shifting sands can uncover treasure momentarily" ;-)
Also put some form of anonymous contact info in your profile. Low chances, but who knows...
EDIT: Looks like your account has a bit of history to it. If there isn't anything particularly identifying in there, the above idea should be good.