nightjar nightjar@ wrote:
"Colin Wilson" wrote in message
t...
.... All state backed regulations
should be available - in electronic form - for free, or at a nominal
cost
In other words, they should be paid for out of general taxation, so that
all
tax payers bear the cost, instead of just the people who actually want
them.
We`ve already paid for them - the least they can do is make them
accessible !

Exactly how do you think you have paid for any British Standard? The BSI is
a commercial organisation, not a government body, and its work on creating
and maintaining Standards is funded by the sales of those Standards. As a

But if the Government chooses to use a BSI doc as the basis of a
regulation then it has in effect sub-contracted the detailed drafting of
the law. That may be more effective and efficient than civil servants
doing the work in-house. So let the government pay for the work by
purchase a license to make the relevant parts of the standard freely
available.


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David Clark
http://www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk
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