Among these organizations, only the IETF and ITU-T explicitly refer to their standards as "open standards," while the others refer only to producing "standards.
Na primer, pravila standardov objavljenih s glavnih mednarodno priznanih organizacij, kot so IETF, ISO, IEC in ITU-T dovoljujejo, da ti standardi vsebujejo specifikacije za katere bodo morali izvajalci in uporabniki plačati najemnino za patent.