* Bob Braden: > Now, it has always been IETF's (and even before there was an IETF, > Jon Postel's) policy to allow people to sell RFCs. What astonishes > me is that clever people in the IEEE don't know RFCs are available > free online. I guess RFCs remain so counter-cultural that industrial > types don't get it. I wonder how many other IEEE standards contain > similar RFC-for-pay references..
A lot of the stuff IEEE publishes for a fee is freely and legally available from other sources (without the official IEEE imprint, of course). IEEE performs extensive search engine optimization (aka Google spamming) to get their for-pay content rated over the free content. I suppose this is required because otherwise, library access statistics would plummet and libraries would cancel their subscriptions. *sigh* (Same for ACM, Springer, and so one, of course.) _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
