Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!kwe From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: ISO VTP Message-ID: <23614@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 5 Jul 88 16:46:39 GMT References: <8807051529.AA07979@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England) Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Organization: Boston Univ. Information Tech. Dept. Lines: 17 In article <8807051529.AA07979@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KASTEN@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Frank Kastenholz) writes: > [quoting P. Prindeville] >>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). And they, in turn, assign the rights to sell the printed documents to publishers like Omnicom, who make money selling ISO standards and drafts. Not likely to go on-line anytime soon when Omnicom is making money selling printed copies. Ah, when will we have royalty procedures for on-line publishing??