Re: 2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards...

[helliott@losat.redstone.army.mil (Doc Elliott)]

In article <3h5ake$6o0@monmouth.edu>, s0222353@moncol.monmouth.edu 
says...
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some real good ideas

I can't speak for other organizations, but I can say for certain that 
what resources I have available here in this government office could be 
brought to bear in the manner proposed by Dean.  I can work on converting 
documents in my (limited) spare time and at home.  We have an FTP server, 
and a WWW server available for our use.

The one aspect of this that really bothers me is in the great 
governmental knee-jerk to drop mil-specs and go with commercial and 
industry specs, we may have caused ourselves some real licensing 
problems.  The MIL_STD-498 is intended for public distribution, but I 
believe that ANSI, ISO, IEE etc standards are all copyrighted.  In 
another thread, Michael Feldman reported that the ANSI standard for 
Fortran 90 cost over $200 to obtain!!!!  This needs to be addressed.

Doc Elliott
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