[RFC] Open Access to Standards Documents – LLVM Project

May 21, 2026 · 5:50 AM UTC · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 38 views

tl;dr: ISO is seeking testimonials from “open source organizations” by June 4th on the importance of open access to ISO standards documents; this RFC is about that statement. Background Roughly speaking, under the usual ISO and IEC rules, all committee-related documents are only accessible to committee members or other members of their organization. There was an historical experiment run by JTC1, the committee within ISO which is responsible for technology-related standards, to open access to c...

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▪ [RFC] Open Access to Standards Documents - LLVM Project — r/cpp

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Original publisher	LLVM Discussion Forums
Canonical URL	https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-open-access-to-standards-documents/90856
Publication time	Thu, 21 May 2026 05:50:03 +0000
Retrieval time	2026-05-21T06:05:03.544Z
Last seen	2026-05-21T06:05:03.544Z
Headline source	Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite)
Excerpt source	publisher description
Excerpt method	Publisher-supplied description / RSS summary field.
Summary	None yet
Summary source text	description
Citation coverage	No WeSearch summary has been generated for this story yet.
Cluster	agvov4RmXTlu · 2 stories
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Ranking reason	Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking.
Publisher visit	Yes — open original
Substitutes article?	No — link-out required for full text

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Commercial reuse	May the content be reused commercially?	Not permitted

Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.

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