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From: KASTEN@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Frank Kastenholz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ISO VTP
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Date: 5 Jul 88 13:49:57 GMT
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>It would be nice if the NIC were to furnish the ISO documents
>on-line.  Of course, this would require a significant amount
>of storage, as they tend to be much more wordy than the
>equivalent RFCs... :-)

Also, they tend to be copyrighted (at least my copy of IS 7498 - the
basic reference model - is). And rights for copying are assigned to
the "local" national standards org (ANSI in the USA).