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From: donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com (Donn Terry)
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Subject: Re: Are POSIX documents available for ftp from somewhere?
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From:  Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com>

The IEEE does not allow general access to the machine readable of any
of its standards.  The key reason is that there have actually been cases
where someone gets it, modifies it slightly for their own benefit, and
then prints it claiming it's the standard.  Since that happened, the IEEE
has been very careful about protecting its copyright and the machine
readable.

However, they do realize the world is changing, and that there is a need
to have machine-readable for legitimate reasons.  They are looking into
it (but slowly, as befits a bureaucracy).  (Someone at IEEE will kill me
for saying that :-) ).

They're defintely going to protect it somehow when it does become 
available; anonymous ftp doesn't seem real likely.

Donn Terry
Speaking only for myself, of course.

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 53