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title: "Truly Open Standards Are Free: Well done the ITU!"
date: 2007-09-20T14:38:01Z
modified: 2007-09-20T14:38:01Z
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The International Telecoms Union has just done something very cool. [Made their standards free](http://xml.coverpages.org/ITU-T-FreeStandards.html). A truly open standards don’t have barriers to entry.

As I have said before it would be good to see ITIL and other standards do the same… [On Standards and Barriers To Entry](http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/03/13/itil-needs-to-lower-its-prices-on-standards-and-barriers-to-entry/).