For a trial period, ITU recommendations are to be available for download free of charge. The ITU has more than a century of experience standardising communication systems and is now a UN body. In the computer world it is perhaps best known for the X.509 Public Key Cryptography and X.1141 Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standards.
It’s great to see the ITU taking steps to make the standards more widely accessible. Hopefully this will lead to an increased take-up and better implementation of it’s great security and privacy standards. Easy access to the standards is crucial to correct and robust implementation, and in the past even relatively low financial barriers to accessing standards may have limited access, especially to open source and academic developers.
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