Ugh, yes. I recently wrote a parser for an ISO standard file format. I had to base it on the draft submission because they wanted me to pay them a bunch of money for the actual end standard.<p>I really hope the final standard didn&#x27;t have any substantive changes, so that my implementation is correct. But all I can really do is cross my fingers since it at least seems to work with available data.<p>Charging for standards has a direct negative effect on the proliferation of those standards, especially today when a lot of code is written as open source hobby projects, which are left out in the cold.