CELKO (12/15/2010)

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ISO makes its money from selling documents. ANSI makes its money from membership fees. Other national Standards bodies are government agencies and get tax money.

If you go on-line you can find most of the ISO stuff explained in enough detail to use it.

You can also often find the full documents on line. But they are written in "Standards-speak" which is a specialized member of the "Legaleze" language family. It took me most of my first year on ANSI X3H2 to learn the basic rules.

ISO-11179 is big and hard to read. That is why I put it into English in my SQL PROGRAMMING STYLE book. The DoD and Feds are hot for it and it is showing up in contracts now. It is also the basis for the Metadata group's work.