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From: ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PHIGS standard available for comments
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 16:52:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 16:52:11 1987
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Reply-To: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
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Keywords: PHIGS  ANSI  X3  graphics interactive CBEMA big bucks

SIGGRAPH did publish the GKS standard a couple of years ago, but this was the
result of a long negotiation, a "financial settlement" with ANSI, and a fairly
bizarre arrangement whereby SIGGRAPH was not able to include the normal front
matter in our newsletter because ANSI demanded that the standard be published
"as is".

I am not an expert on the standards process, but I am told that the only way
you can get a copy of the standard in "your country" is to get it from "your
standards representative".  This means that organizations like SIGGRAPH usually
are not in a position to publish draft standards even at their own expense.

A proposal for "PHIGS+" (not the PHIGS standard, but an extension being worked
on by a group of interested parties) was distributed at this year's conference
at SIGGRAPH expense (this was at the request of Andries Van Dam, one of the
members of the PHIGS+ group).