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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 12 May 2011 15:50 UTC

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On 5/12/2011 7:58 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>
> On May 12, 2011, at 10:41 58AM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>> --On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 16:43 -0400 Steven Bellovin
>> <smb@cs.columbia.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the IEEE has tightened its copyright policy; see
>>> http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights
>>> /paperversionpolicy.html for details.
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> It seems to me that this policy applies to documents published
>> by the IEEE and that it has no direct effect on IETF (or RFC
>> Editor)-published documents.
>
> My comment was in reply to Masataka Ohta's note saying that he
> often evades the pricing on things like IEEE or ACM pappers
> by finding free ones online.  That looks like it won't be possible
> going forward.

Current IEEE policy continues to allow authors to post the latest update 
prior to IEEE publication on their home site, with proper copyright 
notice and a link to the IEEE copy.

I.e., authors can currently post the last revision before IEEE 
formatting with IEEE logos for free.

Joe (as IEEE TCCC Chair)

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