@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @benis From what I understand it's just one of the ways to cover the organizational costs. The "standards body" as they call it organizes these real life meetings were people come present their work and an appointed or elected committee votes on what gets into standard and what doesn't. The actual cost of development is usually on the experts who are interested in setting the standards, basically you convincing your boss to pay for your time writing a proposal document, presenting it to the committee and pushing it for standardization during those meetings. I imagine the bigger it all get the more complicated it is to organize, while some smaller things might not even go past the first meeting, so it's hard to gauge the overall costs and how much the paywalls matter. It's just another way for them to make money and if it works it works, if it doesn't they raise the membership fees I guess.