Web Group Opposes ISO Fee Plan
Evan Hansen,
CNet News.com,
Sept 19, 2003
From time to time I question the wisdom of sending important standards to standards bodies. Sending learning object metadata to IEEE or Dublin Core to ISO seems, to me, to involve a certain degree of risk. People look at me a bit funny - after all, these are standards bodies. Yes, but they're also corporate entities. The source of my misgivings? Well, items like this: the W3C is being forced to respond to a plan by ISO to charge royalties for the use of basic symbols such as currency codes. Yup, that's right, my use of the $ character or the .ca in my URL might incur a charge. I can't make this stuff up. I can't, really.
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