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Re: was ISO Documents Cause OSI Failure?

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From: Alasdair Grant
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:08
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In article <BtHJrB.H50@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) writes:
>Hmm, shouldn't standards designed to provide OPEN SYSTEMS be available to
>everyone who want's to have a look (I'd agree to handling & printing charge,
>but currently getting ISO docs is almost as expensive as getting drugs - or so
>they say, I'm not on drugs, rather I'm on ISO docs 8=)

My local public library has copies of all ISO documents which have made
it to BSI standards (which includes all the OSI ones, SGML, esoteric 
things like DOA, etc. etc.). Note, _public_ library not university library.

They don't have RFCs.
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From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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Subject: Re: was ISO Documents Cause OSI Failure?
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Date: 26 Aug 92 13:08:33 GMT
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