Do the end-users or the component/system vendors need to purchase “standards”?
Standards are available to anyone who wishes to implement them. The primary purpose of standards is to enable users of a specific technology to utilize a common approach to the technology. As these standards are not proprietary, anyone interested can receive a copy of the standard by contacting the approving agency, such as AIIM, ISO, ANSI, etc., and, in some cases, paying a small fee which is used to offset the cost of printing, stocking, and mailing the copies of the standards.
