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- From: Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com>
-
- The IEEE does not allow general access to the machine readable of any
- of its standards. The key reason is that there have actually been cases
- where someone gets it, modifies it slightly for their own benefit, and
- then prints it claiming it's the standard. Since that happened, the IEEE
- has been very careful about protecting its copyright and the machine
- readable.
-
- However, they do realize the world is changing, and that there is a need
- to have machine-readable for legitimate reasons. They are looking into
- it (but slowly, as befits a bureaucracy). (Someone at IEEE will kill me
- for saying that :-) ).
-
- They're defintely going to protect it somehow when it does become
- available; anonymous ftp doesn't seem real likely.
-
- Donn Terry
- Speaking only for myself, of course.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 53
-
-