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Tell that to the IETF, who publishes thousands of standards for free, standards that made your comment on this forum possible.

Open standards. Open research. Open code. This is how we progress as a society. Rent seeking organizations like ISO can rot in the dirt for all I care.

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Sorry, but you're only kidding yourself if you think you can even compare an RFC with an ISO publication. There's rigor, formality, lawyers, technical writers, and many others involved. RFC is exactly what it sounds like and what was originally intended for: "Request For Comments". There's no conference or central body (at least to the degree that there is for ISO) and it's mostly done in an ad-hoc manner. Nothing against IETF or RFCs, but you're really comparing apples and oranges. I've been coauthor on two RFCs and it is nothing like an ISO committee.

Do you mean the same IETF who standardize a technology covered by Cisco patents ? These guys are a joke... Heck, there is even a song about it... https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35

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