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From: jhh@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Haller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: another of the most commonly asked question .. Obtaining ISO Documents
Summary: AP documents != blue books
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Date: 28 Feb 89 00:01:47 GMT
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In article <26323@apple.Apple.COM>, desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
> This seems to imply that once we get the
> Blue Book, we can copy a standard from the final reports, but not the
> (not coincidentally) identical standard from the Blue Book. Please
> correct me if I am wrong.

The contents of the blue books will not necessarily be identical
to the AP final reports.  In the 1984 books, for example, the AP
document had some mistakes in the description of closed user groups
for X.25 (X.300, I believe), which was fixed in the Red books.
The corrections are generally of an editorial nature, however.

The AP documents can be freely distributed, however.

John Haller