[meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)

[Jeffry Smith]

> I'm being a bit impractical and redundant here, but I would also like to see
> all standards be available to the public on request.  I know this was covered
> in the amendment, but I am looking at the ISO website and I'm seeing that for
> ODF it would cost about 335 dollars to get the specification for it.  I'm not
> sure how it could be implemented without infringing on the ISO's copyrights.
> I see a lot of standards that NH mandates, but they seem to be set at the RSA-
> level.
>
> -Ryan

Good point.  For ODT, the saving grace is that it's an OASIS standard
as well, which is freely available
(http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OpenDocument-v1.1.odt) - but
that's not true for other ISO standards.