https://www.righttoknow.ie/2019/04/02/right-to-know-and-publ...
Saying in the law you have to respect the technical norms and then be like: "Yeah but you can only see them when you pay a heckton of money" is totally immoral.
I can understand delegating from law to something that doesn't require 180 people agreeing on a change heavy in domain knowledge. I'm not an electrician, so I'm not allowed to do anything anyway (oh, the protected guilds,) but this is going in the wrong direction.
I think it is clear in the article, but it is generally better not to say "European Court" but "European Court of justice" or "ECJ" to distinguish it (a purely EU institution) from the European Court of Human Rights.
If some of these organizations were to release ISO-derived norms to the public, they would be breaching copyright.
We should have an international treaty that says we fund these organizations from public budgets and everything they produce is open.
EDIT: Wrongly blamed US, but ISO is based in Geneva.
>The applicant shall have access to documents either by consulting them on the spot or by receiving a copy, including, where available, an electronic copy, according to the applicant's preference. The cost of producing and sending copies may be charged to the applicant. This charge shall not exceed the real cost of producing and sending the copies. Consultation on the spot, copies of less than 20 A4 pages and direct access in electronic form or through the register shall be free of charge.
Norms are usually not free, but the funny thing is that each country's norm agency sets their price. So for example, EN 1991-1-1 (structural concrete load) costs 230€ at Afnor (France), 82€ at NSAI (ireland), and 28€ in EVS (Estonia). Same PDF
I wonder if the same will apply for other common standards like low voltage electricity, construction, etc.
