W3C has published the text of a letter [1] sent to ISO president Dr. Oliver Smoot expressing concern about a suggestion that ISO would charge software developers to use ISO codes in their products:
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"Companies who develop software products for sale to other parties are adding value to their products by including the data elements from an ISO Code in proper applications ...via the sale of the product the developing company is not only being compensated for its direct efforts to incorporate the ISO Codes in apropriate locations but it is also being compensated for trhe value the ISO Codes have added to its product. The ISO community should also be compensated for providing the intellectual property required to incorporate the value-added features into the product."
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[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2003JulSep/0213
[2] http://www.ncits.org/archive/2003/in031008/in031008.htm
[3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt
------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org