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On 10/30/10 11:50 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Can you name an information technology standard whose actual
> development was funded by DIN?

I doubt that DIN wants to fund actual development of standards
other than by providing infrastructure, a platform, a single point
of service, rules needed, publication, etc.

> I suspect that when they talk about work on standardization, they
> refer exclusively to the bureaucratic aspects, not the technical
> contents.

Can we get the agreements and compromises that a standard
embodies and then have them archived, official, permanently
available without paper work being done in a standard place?
Shouldn't we, at some point, follow standard procedures to
get what a standard is expected to be?

More accessible and less expensive sources of information,
such as Wikipedia, need funding (donations), too.  Organizing
Wikipedia has established rules, a donation system...