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- From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Re: was ISO Documents Cause OSI Failure?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.130833.3721@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 13:08:33 GMT
- References: <2877@ucl-cs.uucp> <BtHJrB.H50@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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- Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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- In article <BtHJrB.H50@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) writes:
- >Hmm, shouldn't standards designed to provide OPEN SYSTEMS be available to
- >everyone who want's to have a look (I'd agree to handling & printing charge,
- >but currently getting ISO docs is almost as expensive as getting drugs - or so
- >they say, I'm not on drugs, rather I'm on ISO docs 8=)
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- My local public library has copies of all ISO documents which have made
- it to BSI standards (which includes all the OSI ones, SGML, esoteric
- things like DOA, etc. etc.). Note, _public_ library not university library.
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- They don't have RFCs.
-