(Under what conditions exactly is Roger Marks proposing to make these
documents available? For example, would I be able to share them with
collegues and potential collaborators, students, customers, and
friends I have technical conversations with, etc? Why cannot they
simply be made publicly available?)
The IEEE 802.16 standards are publicly available (see above). Roger has
also provided access to the archives, which include proposals, works in
progress, etc. As far as I know, there is no problem with sharing the
documents.
Bernard is actually one of the "right people" to tell me if I'm
MISunderstanding, but my understanding is that the IEEE handles their "work
in progress" by making it available to people who are interested in the work
as work in progress, but not putting it up for unlimited downloading until
it is approved.
I've only had experience with IEEE 802.1, 802.3, 802.11, and 802.17, but the
chairs of each of these groups has been THRILLED to provide access
information to anyone who was planning to read it and either (1) comment
back to IEEE, or (2) work on IP mappings, SNMP MIB bindings, etc. based on
their work-in-progress (with the understanding, of course, that current
dtafts have no more standing in IEEE 802 than they have in IETF working
groups).
So, IEEE 802 seems to be a tiny bit less "open" than the IETF, when it comes
to "work in progress", but when a completed standard is added to the
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/, it's available for free download by
anyone, just like an RFC. I've worked with "closed" standards
groups/industry consortia ("please deposit $30K to see this spec"), and IEEE
isn't one of the "closed" ones.
Of course, we handle OUR "work in progress" by insisting that it disappears
if it wasn't updated or improved in six months, so there are different ways
to solve the problem...
Spencer
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