From fortran@vnet.IBM.COM Wed May 5 10:52:05 1993 Received: from vnet.ibm.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA08628 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 6 May 1993 02:52:16 +0200 Message-Id: <199305060052.AA08628@dkuug.dk> Received: from STLVM7 by vnet.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7330; Wed, 05 May 93 20:50:49 EDT Date: Wed, 5 May 93 17:52:05 PDT From: fortran@vnet.IBM.COM To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Admendments, etc., to standards and attached note X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 It is my hope that any documents re Fortran 90 interpretations that are to be available from ISO will include reprinted or marked-up replacement pages in addition to text that is presented in interpretation number sequence. I am persuaded that is the only method to assure that each user has the same document. Thanks, Dick W. IBM M77/E365,555 Bailey Ave,PO 49023,San Jose Ca 95161-9023 internet: fortran@vnet.ibm.com 408-463-2956, fax ...-3114 ------------------ Subject: Amendments to standards From: tsl@panix.com (Ted Llewellyn) Message-ID: Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 01:28:37 GMT I have just bought my first standard and related documents (ISO 8879 SGML, its amendment, and the techniques and vocabulary technical reports) and it costs a pretty penny when it's coming out of your own pocket. But I don't want to complain about the cost. I know why they cost so much and that the standards community is aware that selling this information at a dollar or two a page is not a good way of distributing the information. But I want to inquire and yes, bitch, about the amendment. There must be a hundred changes to the original standard in the amendment. So why are these changes in a separate document? If changes have been agreed to, why not change the standard? Isn't it misleading to have a standard's changes listed separately where someone could miss them? And what does everybody do, pencil in the notes in their copy of the original? Is this common to the way ISO operates? And if so, why? Ted Llewellyn tsl@panix.com ted@walwyn.nyc.ny.us