tl;dr: SMPTE has made its entire Standards catalog—including all published Standards, Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines, and RDDs, plus future releases—freely available to the public. The move is backed by Diamond-level corporate members (Apple, Google, Disney, Sony, AWS, etc.) and accompanies a modernization push that includes GitHub-based workflows, HTML-based authoring, and an integrated publishing pipeline. The goal is to improve interoperability and adoption as the industry navigates IP-based workflows, AI authenticity, and content provenance.