#Europe has been for too long mandating the use of closed #standards, and in 2018 there was an attempt to get them #open by demanding free access to them using #FOIA.

The @EUCommission@EUCommission said “no”, those asking for them sued, then appealed, and in the now called “ @carlmalamud@carlmalamud judgement” the comission was told to grant access.

Who didn’t like this? Standards bodies - entities that should be working for a goal and the common good, but instead see their work as a business. In December, #ISO and #IEC sued. Let’s see how this evolves…

A better and less summarized description here:
https://www.globalnorm.de/en/news-product-compliance/details/new-development-on-the-malamud-case-and-free-provision-of-standards/