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From: fwc@FLUKY.MITRE.ORG (Forrest W. Colliver)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: High Cost of OSIng
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Date: 21 Jan 91 17:59:38 GMT
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I would like to echo the sentiment expressed in the enclosed note.  I find
the contrast between the ready availability of the DARPA Internet standards
and the difficulty of requisition of the ISO/ANSI OSI standards to be a
significant impediment to my efforts to advance OSI development in my
community of interest (i.e., civil aviation data networks).  I would
support any mechanism whereby OSI documents were available by anonymous
ftp for widespread dissemination.

Forrest Colliver               (703)883-7271
The MITRE Corporation          'colliver@mitre.org'
McLean, Virginia
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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.

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