On 13 Jun 2015, at 12:12, Alessandro Rubini rubini@gnudd.com wrote:
For consortia standards, the resulting standards tend to be free of cost to access, have variable freedom from encumbrance to use [...]
It depends. Or maybe we think of different things about "consortia". IEEE stuff is not free of cost, but is freely implementable. I think this falls under consortia under your proposed split: it is not governamental "de jure" and not community.
But when I hear "consortium" I think more about bluetooth, zigbee, SD, PCI, such stuff. This is usually neither available nor free to use. Usually you even have to pay the yearly fee to the Family if you produce compliant stuff (this is in addition to paying for conformance tests).
One example, but they are all similar: http://www.usb.org/developers/vendor/
Yes, this is true. I guess the picture is very variable with consortia-based standards as its up to the members to agree the rules. In some industries like TV this can be really restrictive and non-members can’t even read the standards; for web standards like W3 its less so.
/alessandro
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