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From: kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Re: A question for FTP users
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.664670183.kristoff@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 23 Jan 91 22:36:23 GMT
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Bruce,

P.S. - The people at NCBI will be running the next GenBank contract
and have it in their charter to develop standards.  I would hope that
they would comment on these issues.  NCBI has already held developers
meetings on their proposed ASN.1 standard which I hope people are
anticipating.  

I am all for minimizing disruptions to people's software (I'm still
suffering from some of these problems myself), but the longer term
future is in the hands of the NIH.  They can dictate what the
contractors are required to provide.

Dave