Re: Standards - on the net or for sale?

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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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Doc Elliott <helliott@LOSAT.REDSTONE.ARMY.MIL> Writes:
>
>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
>
I'd gladly send you a check for $0.02 if you'd tell me where I
can FTP a nice, clean Postscript version of Mil-Std-1750A,
Mil-Std-1553B, etc. I've asked in this venue before and nobody
seems to know.

>
>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.
>
I assume you didn't mean 'me' personally. Some mil standards are
perfectly fine in my mind. Some are lousy in that they try to
apply a "one size fits all" inflexible solution on every possible
situation. In any case, I don't expect Mil-Std-1815A,
Mil-Std-1750A, Mil-Std-1553B, Mil-Std-2167A, et alia to go away
any time real soon and I'd still like to get copies as needed
without going to our tech-pubs people, filling out forms, waiting
for weeks and finally getting a fifth generation xerox of a
standard with a handfull of update pages to be dealt with
separately by the consumer. (_That's_ stuff that sucks!)

I reiterate my point - Government developed standards ought to be
at an anonymous FTP site where I can get at them easily. It would
save the government money, the DoD contractor money and the
American people money.

Pax,
Marin

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer    ATT:        407.796.8997
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