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From: rusty@WIN1.IMS.ABB.COM ("Rusty Rowell")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: High Cost of OSIng
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Date: 15 Jan 91 01:38:00 GMT
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> 
>                                     ... Is the high cost of standards 
> impeding efforts to adopt those standards?  Do you know less about OSI 
> because you can't readily (cheaply) obtain standards specifications?

Indirectly.  I am frequently annoyed by the fact that I can't get these 
documents electronically as the TCP/IP RFC's.  In trying to create an 
intelligent design for a network, I would like to see what the OSI 
standard will be in the future.  I would like to work toward that 
standard.  Cost and the time involved in getting these documents (you 
know the paperwork involved in a "Standard Requisition" ;-) ) means that 
I am working from hearsay, trade rags and Internet mailing lists.

Rusty.
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