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From: shri@ncst.ernet.in ("H.Shrikumar")
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Subject: "Paying by the inch for OSI documentation". was Re: MHS doc ..on-line?
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In article <9009200545.aa20609@ICS.UCI.EDU> ALGOLD%LNCC2@cunyvm.cuny.edu
(Alexandre Leib Grojsgold) writes:

>"The big difference between TCP/IP and OSI is that the latter is copyrighted
>by ISO, while TCP/IP is in the public domain"

 What exactly is copy-right by the ISO?
 The text of the document or the design of the protocols themselves,
 (can this be copyrighted at all) ?

 If the former case, the docs could be re-written, and placed in the
public-domain (perhaps using clean-room approach). If indeed ISO
is inflexible about it, a bunch of grad students could contribute
to it. A worthy cause.

-- shrikumar ( shri@ncst.in )