Re: Soo, a US-based corporation is subject to US law
The IEEE in its role as a standards coordinator is not trading with anyone. I suppose someone that doesn't understand why it exists might assume that as a publisher that owns the copyright of the resulting standards its got something to sell but in reality its just an umbrella organization acting as proxy for its various industry members. Since most of these members will be overseas corporations its not a big deal to move the work to an alternative, more reliable, organization.
(Its worth reminding ourselves why crystallographic standards post DES are not developed or standardized in the US.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
