Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso Subject: Re: ISO Whining Message-ID: <143009@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 01:15:18 GMT References: <142850@pyramid.pyramid.com> Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 >When you speak of "the '88 standards", I believe you're referring to >CCITT documents, not ISO documents. The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia to which Lon was referring contains a good cross- section of ANSI, IEEE, ISO, CCITT Blue Book, and ECMA standards. The now-obso- lete 1984 edition sold for considerably less than the cost of the individual ISO docs it contained. I'd guess that the same is true for the 1988 edition, but haven't actually checked. >When you speak of "most of them except Internet RFC's", I'm not sure >what you mean. Internet RFC's are not "standards". Some of them certainly are. RFC's have a status associated with them, just as ISO documents do. The difference is that when the IETF issues an update, it issues a new RFC number. ISO and CCITT keep the same number regardless of the number of revisions through which a document has gone.