Comment by lysace
8 months ago
Pay-to-read standards like those of the ISO actively hinder human progress. Please don't encourage this behaviour.
8 months ago
Pay-to-read standards like those of the ISO actively hinder human progress. Please don't encourage this behaviour.
With C++, the latest draft of the standard is made available for free [0]. My understanding is that the final draft and the official standard are more or less same w.r.t. their material content. I imagine the draft standard for OIDC is also available somewhere.
[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links#C.2B.2B_standard_doc...
Almost every standard is like this. If you just want to implement, you take the last draft that's public. The process between that draft and a standard is an extensive review and editing process to ensure that wording is exactly precise, patent claims against the standard are void or invalid, and that there are no other problems. That stuff takes time and money.
> My understanding is that the final draft and the official standard are more or less same w.r.t. their material content.
Details matter. So not so open after all?
Not every MUST be black and white. It is okay to admit things are grey. Those engineers are not actively harming human progress by creating human progress, and its insane to say that