Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsi!hrs1 From: hrs1@cbnewsi.att.com (herman.r.silbiger) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: Re: FTP defn of SGML Summary: CCITT no longer paper based Message-ID: <1990Sep30.023741.9306@cbnewsi.att.com> Date: 30 Sep 90 02:37:41 GMT References: <1990Sep24.174222.22487@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 35 In article , enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: > In article <1990Sep28.134332.24815@terminator.cc.umich.edu> jwh@boston.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes: > > Do you know if you can get a machine readable version of the > standard from ISO? > > Yes, and the answer is unfortunately NO. I learned that they do not > even have machine-readable versions in-house, and that drafts are most > often type-set anew for each version. The same goes for CCITT, which > is another paper-based standardizing body in the field of electronic > information. Amazing. > CCITT, or rather the ITU, of which CCITT and CCIR are part, is no longer "paper based." All draft recommendations are produced electronically, using Microsoft Word for Windows, and are published in-house. Editors and contributors are requested to submit their work in machine-readable form, and they have translaters for more than 20 proprietary formats. By the end of this year submissions can also be made in ODA conforming to the level 26 DAP (CCITT Rec. T.505). These documents will also be accessible electronically by Study Group members through an interactive service called TIES. TIES can be accessed through modem dialup and packet networks via the Swiss PTT. Submission can also be via X.400 links. The documents will be in Word format, and also ODA by the end of the year. CCITT is pursuing the possibility of electronic distribution, and has actually made a Telecom directory available electronically to purchasers of the paper version. The electronic version is updated 4 times per year, the paper copy yearly. The main difficulty with electronic distribution is not technology but obtaining payment for the information. Herman Silbiger hsilbiger@attmail.com