Free standards - Get Your Free Standards Here!!

[Hoyt L Kesterson II <hoytkesterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Free standards - Get Your Free Standards Here!!

ITU just announced

> From the beginning of 2007, ITU-T Recommendations will be
> available without charge for a trial period.
>
> With only a small number of exceptions all in-force
> Recommendations will be available in PDF form via a simple mouse
> click.
>
> There is a general belief that the strategic importance of
> making on-line access to ITU-T Recommendations free outweighs the
> costs (in terms of lost revenue) to ITU. This is seen as a way to
> increase the transparency of ITU-T work and encourage wider
> participation in ITU-T activities. It is also believed that this
> policy will help increase developing countries' awareness of pertinent
> issues and help to promote the participation of academia in ITU-T
> work.
>
>

For this group you can start at the top of the X Recommendations here

   http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X/e

Note some strangeness. For example the ASN.1 recommendations are offered as an aggregate and in individual recommendations. For some reason the aggregate is not offered for free

   http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.680-X.693-200207-I/en

However, each recommendation is offered separately for free, e.g.

  http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.680-200207-I/en  (for english, spanish, and french versions)

Links to all the recommendations start here

   http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/publications/recs.html

Note that this is not a release of copyright. Get them but don't post them.

Enjoy

    hoyt