Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Tue, 10 May 2011 21:30 UTC

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Bob Braden wrote:

> I wonder how many other IEEE standards contain similar
> RFC-for-pay references..

It's common (much more than 50% for academic ones, IMHO) that
sold articles are freely available on-line.

For example, a PDF file of the paper "End-to-end arguments in
system design" can be purchased for $15 from:

   http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1145/357401.357402

which is the first link appears in google scholar search with
the paper title, or, from:

   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=357401.357402

to which the above IEEE link is redirected, but is available
free of charge from:

   http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf

which is the second link (next to google scholar one) with plain
google search.

It is a lot more time (and money) saving to search free
versions before entering transactions to purchase them than
to rely blindly on PubMed, IEEE, ACM, google scholar etc.

						Masataka Ohta