Re: BCP97bis and "freely available"

George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> Tue, 19 October 2021 00:29 UTC

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From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:28:45 +1000
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Subject: Re: BCP97bis and "freely available"
To: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@alumni.stanford.edu>
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Good to see. I'd say "wow, I think thats a change of posture" but who
knows: maybe I was woefully misinformed at the time?

It was a long time ago. nearly 30 years ago.

-G

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM Randy Presuhn
<randy_presuhn@alumni.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> On 2021-10-18 4:03 PM, George Michaelson wrote:
> ...
> > So, the existence of some X-series documents outside the paywall is
> > the exception, not the normality, as I understand it.
> ...
>
>  From https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/publications/Pages/recs.aspx :
> "The vast majority of all Recommendations are available in electronic
> (PDF) form, free of charge to all, once the final, edited version is
> published."
>
> For example, lots of interesting stuff is listed on
> https://www.itu.int/itu-t/recommendations/index.aspx?ser=X
>
> Randy
>