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From: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: IEEE/ISO Doc.
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Date: 18 Mar 90 04:18:56 GMT
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In article <9003161712.AA16908@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes:
>Omnicom in Reston VA will cheerfully sell you any or all the IEEE or ISO
>Documents you want.  Because they are copyrighted, and neither the IEEE
>nor the ISO will sacrifice the revenue they get from the people who
>sell the paper documents, you can't get them electronically. [...]

Whoever coined the phrase "the best things in life are free" must have
been thinking of the Internet protocol specifications vis a vis OSI... :-)

Phil