/lounge/ - Happy World Standards Day!

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 6:19

https://www.iso.org/world-standards-day.html

Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 6:41

Sounds like communism.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 7:49

>>2
Standards can be applied in almost any form of government and economic system.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 8:07

Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU.

Fixed.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 8:51

>>4
Yeah, that would have been the more honest thing of them to say, but we can't have that, can we?

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 10:25

How can it be a standard when you need to pay in order to access it? Or when you can't share it with anyone?

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 11:30

>>6
I'm not sure what you mean.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 21:08

>>7
I am

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 22:05

>>8
I am also sure of what he means.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 23:21

>>6
Published standards are in the public domain, no?

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-14 23:23

I mean, you don't have to pay to validate an HTML5 document, or read an RFC.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-15 0:01

>>10

no?

Correct

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-15 0:17

>>12
Oh well. Even in that case, the idea is still good in principle.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-15 9:33

>>13
That means absolutely nothing.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-15 14:58

>>14
Sure it does, you're just being negative.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-15 20:15

>>11
You do for C and literally every other ISO standard.

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-15 21:21

>>16
Yeah, exactly.

Happy World Standards Day!

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