From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a25ce7569da9f8bc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Re: Standards - on the net or for sale? Date: 1995/03/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100540705 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Re: Standards - on the net or for sale? Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC Doc Elliott 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 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== Please send responses to one of the addresses in this trailer. A "reply" to the address in the message header will bounce. =============================================================================== "Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government." -- J. P. Morgan ===============================================================================