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Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

2011-05-12 10:51:21


On 5/12/2011 7:58 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:

On May 12, 2011, at 10:41 58AM, John C Klensin wrote:

--On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 16:43 -0400 Steven Bellovin
<smb(_at_)cs(_dot_)columbia(_dot_)edu>  wrote:

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,

It seems to me that this policy applies to documents published
by the IEEE and that it has no direct effect on IETF (or RFC
Editor)-published documents.

My comment was in reply to Masataka Ohta's note saying that he
often evades the pricing on things like IEEE or ACM pappers
by finding free ones online.  That looks like it won't be possible
going forward.

Current IEEE policy continues to allow authors to post the latest update prior to IEEE publication on their home site, with proper copyright notice and a link to the IEEE copy.

I.e., authors can currently post the last revision before IEEE formatting with IEEE logos for free.

Joe (as IEEE TCCC Chair)
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