Re: Standards - on the net or for sale?

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

In article <INFO-ADA%95032012021548@VM1.NODAK.EDU>, 
CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM says...
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>From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
>Subject: Re: Standards - on the net or for sale?
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>Michael Feldman <mfeldman@SEAS.GWU.EDU> Writes:
>>Both these writers have been very active in standards work;

Sniperoo

>    What does tend to gall me is when the _GOVERNMENT_ doesn't make
>    this stuff available on the Internet for free and easy access by
>    all of us who must use the standards they define. After all, we've
>    already paid for this stuff in the form of taxes, most of these
>    things would almost certainly be in machine readable form already
>    and it would save the government money by having industry pay to
>    murder all those trees to print out the standards as they need
>    them.


Well, they kinda do.  Lots of the "Government" standards are available 
from various sites via FTP etc.  The real crux of the problem is that 
there is an overwhelming rush to abandon these standards!  We voted in a 
bunch who are determined to tear down anything that the government has 
done and put in place, whether its good or bad, and government standards 
seem to fall into both these categories.  In the rush to do away with 
government standards and take up the cross of commercial standards, we 
(yes you) seem to have forgotten that sometimes these kinds of paradigm 
shifts can have lotsa bugs.

There!  You didn't even have to pay $0.02 for it!
Doc Elliott
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