Is there a good place to "acquire" ISO specs? I've never been able to find them in the usual collections of availability-challenged media. I often resort to google-dorking, which does usually work but it's pretty annoying.
For some, including C and C++, the standards committee works in the open and make draft standards freely available. The final draft is [edit: almost] exactly what was voted on to become the standard.
Is there a library that will loan me a copy?