Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU!jsq From: jsq@SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Getting machine readable copies of protocol specs Message-ID: <8607161342.AA26264@sally.UTEXAS.EDU> Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 09:42:52 EDT Article-I.D.: sally.8607161342.AA26264 Posted: Wed Jul 16 09:42:52 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 01:13:35 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa Brief elaboration on certain points of John Gilmore's message: The X3J11 C Committee (they hate being called ANSI C) has a USENET newsgroup called mod.std.c. It does not appear to be gatewayed to any Internet mailing list. Doubtless the moderator of that newsgroup could elaborate. (The mailing list INFO-C@BRL.ARPA is gatewayed to the different newsgroup net.lang.c.) The IEEE 1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee indirectly sponsors the USENET newsgroup mod.std.unix (known in the Internet as the mailing list STD-UNIX@SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU) and many of the committee members read it. I'm the moderator and have in the past made on-line copies of drafts of the standard available by anonymous FTP from sally in cooperation with the rest of the committee. The current document is the published Trial Use Standard and is not available on-line, though future drafts probably will be. Actually, according to IEE what is on-line is something that "represents" the draft: the real draft is the paper copy, which you can also get just by getting on a paper mailing list. For details on access to these committees and standards, see recent articles in mod.std.unix, whose archives may be gotten by anonymous FTP from sally.utexas.edu. The current volume is in /pub/mod.std.unix. PS: IEEE 1003.1 is working on adoption by ISO. We'll see how that affects availability of drafts.