On May 10, 2011, at 5:22 43PM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
Bob Braden wrote:
I wonder how many other IEEE standards contain similar
RFC-for-pay references..
It's common (much more than 50% for academic ones, IMHO) that
sold articles are freely available on-line.
For example, a PDF file of the paper "End-to-end arguments in
system design" can be purchased for $15 from:
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1145/357401.357402
which is the first link appears in google scholar search with
the paper title, or, from:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=357401.357402
to which the above IEEE link is redirected, but is available
free of charge from:
http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf
which is the second link (next to google scholar one) with plain
google search.
It is a lot more time (and money) saving to search free
versions before entering transactions to purchase them than
to rely blindly on PubMed, IEEE, ACM, google scholar etc.
Unfortunately, the IEEE has tightened its copyright policy; see
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/paperversionpolicy.html
for details.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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