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From: Dave_Katz@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
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Subject: Re: ISO VTP
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Date: 6 Jul 88 14:38:02 GMT
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 >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).
 
There is a loophole--draft standards may be distributed free of charge
in order to "further the cause of standardization."  There is precedent
for publishing draft standards as RFCs (8473 [ISO IP], for instance).
The trick is getting whoever has the machine-readable source for the
text to create straight ASCII for public consumption (and of course
the diagrams and such disappear).