Freely available ISO Standards for BPX and Developers

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The most of the ISO standards are copyrighted and ISO charges for the most copies. It is possible to purchase it direclty by ISO or even the related national standardization body, like DIN (German Standardization Institute). The charge depends mostly on the pages or even size of the standard. It is approx. 100 Swiss Francs per copy.  Anyway, in accordance with ISO/IEC JTC 1 and the ISO and IEC Councils are a number of standards freely available, which can be used for standardization purposes. You'll find these freely available standards either at

• Freely Available Standards provided by ISO
• Freely Standards Download provided by ANSI (American National Standards Institute>

You'll find further SDN information regarding the standardization organizations, at the following links:

• ISO (International Standardization Organization)
• ANSI X.12

The Business Process Expert (BPX) has the opportunity to get freely available ISO standards, in where some of the playing a key part in reference models and open distributed processing. Some of these ISO standards are:

• ISO/IEC 7498 - Open Systems Interconnection -- Basic Reference Model
• ISO/IEC 8613 - Open Document Architecture (ODA) and Interchange Format
• ISO/IEC 8824 - Abstract Syntax Notification (ASN.1)
• ISO/IEC 9075 - Data Base Langauges - SQL
• ISO/IEC 10032 - Reference Model of Data Management
• ISO/IEC 10746 - Open Distributed Processing
• ISO/IEC 11179 - Metadata Registries (MDR)
• ISO/IEC 14662 - Open-edi reference model
• ISO/IEC 14977 - Syntactic metalanguage
• ISO/IEC 15504 - Software Engineering - Process assessment
• ISO/IEC 15944 - Business agreement semantic descriptive techniques
• ISO/IEC 24824 - Generic applications of ASN.1: Fast Web Services
• ..and many others...

If you need a copy of a specific ISO standard, please have a look to the provided websites, before you'll buy one.