It's net-head vs. Bell-heads all over again, and one of the biggest reasons for the success of the IETF standards was the no-cost availability of all their standards.

I assume most democracies have similar laws, it's a basic right to know what laws you should follow ...

>This move is part of a broader effort to modernize the organization's Standards development and publication processes. Recent initiatives include:

>Adopting GitHub-based workflows for version control

>Issue tracking and automation

>Transitioning to structured HTML-based authoring

>Implementing an integrated publishing pipeline that streamlines document creation, review, validation and release.

I am not entirely sure the Hosting on Github, Issue tracking and automation, and HTML-based authoring are all good thing. Although I would guess it is still better than what they had.

And on another note, can anyone pin point the significance of making this entirely Free? SMPTE doesn't hold any patents. And I don't believe their original standards were hard to access. Are there any significant impact of this announcement?

[1] https://www.smpte.org/setting-the-standards-free?hsCtaTracki...

https://pub.smpte.org/doc/

There's some really neat ones all the way from film standards to digital cinema

And this should be mandatory.