Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!panda!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Machine readable version of ANSI draft Message-ID: <4350@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 00:24:35 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4350 Posted: Sun Dec 21 00:24:35 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 08:35:32 EST References: <1525@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: barmar@eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 In article <1525@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: > But it appears that technology is not going to save us from >brain damaged policies in our standards bureacracy; I guess we'll have >to reform the bureacracies instead, which is a lot less fun than building >good technologies. ANSI is basically a publishing house. Do you know of any other major publishing house that would be in favor of you copying their books onto the net? Why is this brain damage? The only possible brain damage is that private companies manage the standards process, rather than having standards managed by the government. This makes sense, though, since the standards are just voluntary agreements among groups of busnesses. The only part the government plays is that of a user of standards, so the National Bureau of Standards has representatives on many standards committees. Considering how the government tends to screw things up, I'm pretty happy that they don't control the standards arena. The price we pay for this is that capitalist concerns affect some of the procedures. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar