Re: High Cost of OSIng

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2 total messages Started by Forrest W. Colliver Mon, 21 Jan 1991 17:59

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Author: Forrest W. Colliver
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 17:59

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I would like to echo the sentiment expressed in the enclosed note.  I find
the contrast between the ready availability of the DARPA Internet standards
and the difficulty of requisition of the ISO/ANSI OSI standards to be a
significant impediment to my efforts to advance OSI development in my
community of interest (i.e., civil aviation data networks).  I would
support any mechanism whereby OSI documents were available by anonymous
ftp for widespread dissemination.

Forrest Colliver               (703)883-7271
The MITRE Corporation          'colliver@mitre.org'
McLean, Virginia
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>> 
>>                                     ... Is the high cost of standards 
>> impeding efforts to adopt those standards?  Do you know less about OSI 
>> because you can't readily (cheaply) obtain standards specifications?

> Indirectly.  I am frequently annoyed by the fact that I can't get these 
> documents electronically as the TCP/IP RFC's.  In trying to create an 
> intelligent design for a network, I would like to see what the OSI 
> standard will be in the future.  I would like to work toward that 
> standard.  Cost and the time involved in getting these documents (you 
> know the paperwork involved in a "Standard Requisition" ;-) ) means that 
> I am working from hearsay, trade rags and Internet mailing lists.

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Re: High Cost of OSIng

#1036

Author: Einar Stefferud
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 04:17

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I think it is entirely clear at this point how INTERNET folk feel aobut
the high cost of paper only ISO/CCITT/ETC standards, adn the desire to
see a change in the method of publication.

I think that the real question now is more of "What is a way to work out
an alternative that meets what we clearly percieve as a critical need?"

I don't think that continued simple lamenting will get us what we want.

Cheers...\Stef

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