Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

[Paddy]

On Feb 1, 12:18 am, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> "John Nagle" <na... at animats.com> wrote in message
>
> news:47a251e7$0$36328$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net..
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> >   Submitting Python 2.5 to ISO/ANSI might be a good idea.
>
> ANSI does not actually make standards.  It make metastandards about how to
> make standards (both style and process) and accredites US standard-making
> bodies that will follow those metastandards.  The processes require
> committee meetings and public comment periods -- a few years and some $$$.
> There in no guarantee that what would come out of such a process would be
> what went in, so 'Standard Python' might easily be a language with no
> implementations.
>
> ANSI standards are owned by ANSI or perhaps the accrediting body.  In any
> case, electronic copies sell for $30.  They cannot legally be accessed free
> as for the docs at python.org.

HI Terry,
Is their a standardizing body out their to `legitimise` open source
languages like Python?

- Paddy.