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From: patb@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: High Cost
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Date: 23 Jan 91 20:09:48 GMT
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Since the US route to OSI is through ANSI, perhps a mass letter-writing
(both electronic and postal) campaign should be undertaken.  And in
other countries, similar efforts.  The clearly preferred alternative is
open public access via a mechanism like the RFPs.  Another choice
would be a publicly available data base machine that one could electronically
"purchase" documents from via a credit card.  

It's about time ISO (and CCITT for that matter) got with the program.

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Pat Blankenship
patb@gateway.mitre.org

<<<All ideas expressed are mine, not theirs.>>>