On: Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?

[zo1]

People could potentially properly implement them if they were open and available:

"Contact the CAP for more information about licensing and using the CAP electronic Cancer Protocols for cancer reporting at your institution."

This stinks of the same gate-keeping that places like NIST and ISO do, charging you for access to their "standards".

[prepend → zo1]

Aren’t all NIST standards free as they are a government body?

[fl0id → zo1]

For liability reasons alone, you cannot just have random people working on health/lab stuff and the requisite vendors have access to these standards.

[joshuaissac → fl0id]

According to what killjoywashere said, the vendors do not want to implement these standards. So if CAP wants the standards to be relevant, they should release them for random people to implement.