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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
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>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?