> What choices have I got as someone who wants to work on open-source > implementations, but who can afford neither to participate in IEEE > meetings nor to purchase drafts?
[DBN] Please don't "shoot the messenger". I didn't make the policy, nor do I specifically endorse it. As an 802.11 voting member, I feel compelled to comply with it, unless and until the rules change. I'm just reporting the "party line". :-) My personal preference is for the open access policies of the IETF. I'm sure that the IEEE feels it has valid reasons for maintaining its policy, most likely growing out of the fact that the IEEE Standards Association derives substantial revenues for selling standards, as do many other standards bodies. Under the IEEE's "Get 802" Program, standards are available for free download six months after they are first published. -- Dave -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
