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- From: hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)
- Subject: Re: iso papers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.194127.2049@ugle.unit.no>
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- Reply-To: harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Norway
- References: <1992Aug15.205222.11972@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 19:41:27 GMT
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- I quote from the FAQ, which was not sent out last month because of a bug
- in the upgrade procedures for my OS:
-
- 4) Where can I FTP the X.400 standards?
- =======================================
-
- Officially, you can't.
- The OSI community has a large number of organizations that derive
- revenue from *selling* copies of these standards.
-
- The CCITT, not being funded in that way, made an experiment in which
- they made all the CCITT documents available for anonymous FTP, but
- that experiment terminated on December 31, 1991, to be replaced by a
- service run out of the ITU offices in Geneva at some later date.
-
- The net result is that there are a lot of electronic copies out there,
- but it is not legal to make them available for anonymous FTP after
- December 31, 1991.
-
- Note: This applies ONLY to the CCITT documents; ISO standards have
- never been put on the network.
-
-
- --
- Harald Tveit Alvestrand
- Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=delab;S=alvestrand;G=harald
- +47 7 59 70 94
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