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chalst on Nov 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Germany threatens to jail Carl Malamud for making ...

I don't know about ANSI, but the IEEE is a US non-profit standards body, and you need to buy its standards to claim compliance with them.

This, and fees for testing products, is generally how non-governmental standards institutes fund themselves.

varjag on Nov 22, 2013 [–]

You also have to pay for ANSI/NIST standard texts, ITU, ISO standards, and for EU industrial standard texts. It's nothing out of ordinary.

EDIT: I see ITU has made their standards free of charge since 2007.

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