Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!DORSAI.ICS.HAWAII.EDU!torben From: torben@DORSAI.ICS.HAWAII.EDU ("Torben N. Nielsen") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: ISO VTP Message-ID: <88Jul6.140451hst.4214@dorsai.ics.hawaii.edu> Date: 7 Jul 88 00:04:41 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 >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). > Could something be done to generate a Postscript copy of it? Most people can at least get access to such a device somewhere close by.... And it should not be difficult to argue that distributing these documents across the Internet *would* indeed further the cause of standardization. Who could ``do something" to make this happen? ANSI? NBS?