"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Feb 1, 12:18 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > ANSI does not actually make standards. It make metastandards about how to | > make standards (both style and process) and accredites US standard-making | > bodies that will follow those metastandards. The processes require | > committee meetings and public comment periods -- a few years and some $$$. | > There in no guarantee that what would come out of such a process would be | > what went in, so 'Standard Python' might easily be a language with no | > implementations. | > | > ANSI standards are owned by ANSI or perhaps the accrediting body. In any | > case, electronic copies sell for $30. They cannot legally be accessed free | > as for the docs at python.org. | | HI Terry, | Is their a standardizing body out their to `legitimise` open source | languages like Python?
Not that I know of. There are at least a couple hundred ANSI-accredited bodies. The application fee to become one is $3000. But some group could act independently, perhaps with streamlined procedures, including meeting by email or chat to cut out the large expenses of meetings, for instance. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
