Hi Michael,
I'm going to check with a few folks at OASIS to see if there's any objection.
Regards,
Mary
>
Original Message-----
> From: Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM [mailto:Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:36 AM
> To: Mason, James David (MXM)
> Cc: Robin Cover; Patrick Durusau; robert_weir@us.ibm.com;
> James Bryce Clark; Mary McRae; office@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [office] ISO/IEC 26300
>
> Jim,
>
> thank you very much for these clarifications. I think it
> would be very useful if the ISO26300:2006 would be available
> for download on the OASIS web site. Though the OpenDocument
> TC could provide it on its web page, I think it would be more
> appropriate if it would be available at the global OASIS web
> pages, where the OASIS standards are listed.
>
> Mary, do you think this is possible?
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
> Mason, James David (MXM) wrote:
> > We can post it on both Ken's site and mine and not charge.
> OASIS, as
> > the originator, can post it and not charge. But JTC1 and
> ISO aren't in
> > the business of posting things; they're just not set up for
> that kind
> > of service. All they know about (!) is printing paper.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
Original Message-----
> > From: Robin Cover [mailto:robin@oasis-open.org]
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:40 AM
> > To: Patrick Durusau
> > Cc: robert_weir@us.ibm.com; James Bryce Clark; Mary McRae; Michael
> > Brauer; odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org;
> office@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: Re: [office] ISO/IEC 26300
> >
> > Hmmmm... I may have misunderstood the initial request to
> have the spec
> > posted "cost free". I assumed he meant:
> >
> > "Freely Available Standards"
> >
> http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2489/Ittf_Home/Publi
> > cl
> > yAvailableStandards.htm
> >
> > per (e.g.,):
> >
> > Freely Available ISO Standards for BPX and Developers
> Gunther Stuhec,
> > SAP Blog
> >
> > Most of the ISO standards are copyrighted and ISO charges
> for the most
> > copies. It is possible to purchase it direclty by ISO or even the
> > related national standardization body, like DIN (German
> > Standardization Institute). The charge depends mostly on
> the pages or
> > even size of the standard. It is approximately 100 Swiss Francs per
> > copy. However, in accordance with ISO/IEC JTC 1 and the ISO and IEC
> > Councils are a number of standards freely available, which
> can be used
> > for standardization purposes. You'll find these freely available
> > standard: (A) Freely Available Standards provided by ISO, and (B)
> > Freely Standards Download provided by ANSI (American National
> > Standards Institute). The Business Process Expert (BPX) has the
> > opportunity to get freely available ISO standards, in where some of
> > the playing a key part in reference models and open
> distributed processing. Some of these ISO standards are:
> > (1) ISO/IEC 7498 - Open Systems Interconnection -- Basic Reference
> > Model;
> > (2) ISO/IEC 8613 - Open Document Architecture (ODA) and Interchange
> > Format; (3) ISO/IEC 8824 - Abstract Syntax Notification (ASN.1);
> > (4) ISO/IEC 9075 - Data Base Langauges - SQL; (5) ISO/IEC 10032 -
> > Reference Model of Data Management; (6) ISO/IEC 10746 - Open
> > Distributed Processing; (7) ISO/IEC 11179 - Metadata
> Registries (MDR);
> > (8) ISO/IEC
> > 14662 - Open-edi reference model; (9) ISO/IEC 14977 - Syntactic
> > metalanguage; (10) ISO/IEC 15504 - Software Engineering - Process
> > assessment; (11) ISO/IEC 15944 - Business agreement semantic
> > descriptive techniques; (12) ISO/IEC 24824 - Generic
> applications of
> > ASN.1: Fast Web Services. In other words: If you need a copy of a
> > specific ISO standard, please have a look to the provided websites,
> > before you'll buy one. If you don't find the requested standard,
> > please inform the ECO International Standards group, before
> you buy a copy.
> >
> > https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/4469
> > See also the site:
> >
> http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2489/Ittf_Home/Publi
> > cl
> > yAvailableStandards.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> >
> >> Rob,
> >>
> >> Hmmm, can't say I have ever heard of a "cost free" standard out of
> > ISO.
> >> ISO has complained to Jim Mason about his posting final
> versions of
> >> SC
> >> 34 standards to his website. He does so on the basis that any
> >> activity
> >
> >> that the US Gov. participates in means the result is a
> royalty free
> >> publication.
> >>
> >> Since he is behind heavily guarded walls at a place that makes
> >> nuclear
> >
> >> weapons, ISO has not pressed the issue. ;-)
> >>
> >> I can ask Jim about posting the final version to one of his
> > webservers.
> >> Would that work for you?
> >>
> >> Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend!
> >>
> >> Patrick
> >>
> >> robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Good news, and thanks to Patrick, Michael and Jamie for
> all of your
> >>> hard work during this process.
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything additional we can do to make this specification
> >>> cost free in ISO? I've seen this done with other standards out of
> > JTC1.
> >>> Do you know how this is triggered?
> >>>
> >>> -Rob
> >>>
> >>> Patrick Durusau