Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 10BASE-T Specs
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.172727.347@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2885@unccvax.uncc.edu> <2230118@hprnd.rose.hp.com> <1990Oct30.200446.4716@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 17:27:27 GMT

In article <1990Oct30.200446.4716@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz writes:
>Surely this could be done with this and the other 802.n specs. Surely
>the documentation defining standards should be readily available so that
>all may know what they say and comply!

It is readily available, in paper form.  Online copies have two problems:

1. It is too easy to slightly alter a copy and then pass it along to your
	customers as proof that you are standard.

2. Standards organizations often are self-financing based mostly on sales
	of printed copies.

Opinions vary about the importance of these two issues, but #1 is *not*
an imaginary problem or an excuse invented by moneygrubbing bureaucrats.
IEEE got burned a few years ago when there was some experimenting with
machine-readable distribution.
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Not to worry."                        |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry