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- From: peter@sug.org (Peter Salus)
- Subject: Re: Standards FAQ (draft!)
- Message-ID: <BzB80J.3pw@world.std.com>
- Keywords: standards, ISO, ANSI, CCITT
- Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr USENET himself)
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- Organization: The Sun User Group
- References: <1gihc7EINN7eg@uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:48:18 GMT
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- In article <1gihc7EINN7eg@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- >Archive-name: standards
- >Last-modified: $Date: 92/12/14 18:41:15 $
- >Version: $Revision: 1.1 $
- >
- >Frequently Asked Questions about International Standards with Answers
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- >
- >Why can't I ftp ISO standards?
- >------------------------------
- >
- >ISO standard documents are copyrighted by ISO and their price is much
- >higher than the costs for printing and shipping the papers. This is
- >because the expenses of running ISO are covered completely by selling
- >the standards. ISO has no other source of money for its operation.
- >Consequently, ISO standards are NOT available as public domain
- >documents to Internet users.
- >
- I think that anyone really interested in what ISO
- is doing and its motives should read Carl Malamud's
- _Exploring the Internet_ (Prentice-Hall 1992), especially
- p. 127 on ITU's cozy relationship with Swiss printers.
- My Dec. 1992 _SunExpert_ column is on this superb book.
- >
- >Where can I ftp CCITT recommendations?
- >--------------------------------------
- >
- >There has been an experimental ftp server for CCITT recommendations but
- >this service has been shut down in the end of 1991 and the files
- >haven't been of very high quality (incomplete, missing graphics and
- >tables). If you still see CCITT documents in the file system of some
- >Internet ftp servers, then these are illegal files now, as the material
- >is still copyrighted by ITU!
-
-
- ITU PRESS RELEASE/92-23
- 6 November 1992
-
-
- WIDE RANGE OF ITU* DOCUMENTS NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE:
- ITU STANDARDS TO BECOME ELECTRONICALLY ACCESSIBLE IN
- EARLY 93
-
-
- An electronic document distribution service providing
- remote access to ITU documents - TELEDOC - became
- operational last week.
-
- Aimed at providing fast and timely access to ITU
- information to the world telecommunication and networking
- community, TELEDOC is a database containing at present:
-
- * CCITT and CCIR administrative documents
- * lists of contributions (substantive input/proposals)
- to CCITT and CCIR study groups
- * lists of CCITT reports and Recommendations
- (i.e. standards)
- * summaries of CCITT new or revised Recommendations
- * CCITT and CCIR meeting schedules and other
- information concerning Study Groups structures
- and activities.
-
- As from early next year, the full texts of all new and
- revised CCITT Recommendations (i.e. all standards
- approved after the publication of the Blue Book in 1988)
- will also be available from TELEDOC. In line with ITU
- publications policies, it is envisaged to expand TELEDOC
- information base according to identified needs and
- available resources.
-
- On TELEDOC's first day of operation, ITU Secretary-
- General Pekka Tarjanne stated: "The impact of the
- changing telecommunications environment makes it
- imperative that the ITU develop new approaches to the
- standardization process and find new ways to improve the
- efficiency of our work, new ways to disseminate the
- output of our work throughout the world. The
- implementation of TELEDOC", he said, "is undoubtedly a
- right step in this direction. Our ultimate goal is to
- make available on-line an entire library of ITU documents
- for a broad and transparent information exchange with all
- categories of interested users".
-
- TELEDOC is based on a X.400 document server which
- processes requests sent in by electronic mail. The
- TELEDOC Auto-Answering Mailbox accepts messages from the
- two most widely used E-mail systems: X.400 and Internet.
- Users without direct access to X.400 or Internet mail can
- use gateway services provided by major service providers
- (e.g. MCI or Compuserve). The electronic mail address of
- TELEDOC Auto-Answering Mailbox (TAM) is:
-
- X. 400 S=teledoc
- P=itu
- A=arcom
- C=ch
-
- Internet teledoc@itu.arcom.ch
-
- Document formats which are planned to be made available
- include ASCII, Microsoft RTF, Word for Windows, Postcript
- and CCITT ODA/ODIF.
-
- TELEDOC will be available on request, on a trial period
- of one year, at no access cost.
-
- For more information or to obtain a copy of the user's
- guide, please contact:
-
- Mr. Robert Shaw Miss Antoinette Bautista
- TELEDOC Project Coordinator EDH - CCITT
- Information Services CCITT Secretariat
- Department International Telecommunication
- International Union
- Telecommunication Union Place des Nations
- Place des Nations 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
- 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
- TEL: +41 22 730 5857
- TEL: +41 22 730 5338/5554 FAX: +41 22 730 5853
- FAX: +41 22 730 5337 X.400: G=antoinette;
- X.400: G=robert; S=shaw; S=bautista; A=arcom; P=itu;
- A=arcom; P=itu; C=ch C=ch
- Internet: shaw@itu.arcom.ch Internet: bautista@itu.arcom.ch
-
- _______________________________
- * The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was
- founded in 1865 and as such is the oldest inter-
- governmental organization. In 1947, it became a
- specialized agency of the United Nations and has a
- membership of 174 countries (4 November 1992). It is the
- international organization responsible for the regulation
- and planning of telecommunications worldwide, for the
- establishment of equipment and systems operating
- standards, for the coordination and dissemination of
- information required for the planning and operation of
- telecommunications services and within the United Nations
- system for the promotion of and contribution to the
- development of telecommunications and the related
- infrastructures.
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