Dear RMS, I think its futile to chase ISO anymore. We would only land up spending our own creative energy which we can't afford to at this pace.
" * Market-driven
ISO only develops standards for which there is a market requirement. The work is mainly carried out by experts from the industrial, technical and business sectors which have asked for the standards, and which subsequently put them to use." .. in their own words at http://www.iso.org/iso/about/discover-iso_the-iso-brand.htm
Why should Free Software Foundation and other like minded organisations allow ISO to take over software standards and make it - only *market-driven* one ?
Its not difficult to realise that the *very conditions* that necessitated a Standards Organisation to be promoted, are now prevalent and omnipresent.
Why not create another organisation that develops standards for the common world citizens to communicate with freedom ?
Shouldn't we ask ourselves now about this, and try to define the *framework* that would set in motion a new organisation which would be able to come out with Free/Open Standards after *defining* them in as unambigous terms as possible ?
CK Raju, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram Kerala, India