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Re: NIST and NASA documents

2013-10-03 06:49:31

On Oct 3, 2013, at 7:34 AM 10/3/13, Alexandru Petrescu 
<alexandru(_dot_)petrescu(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

Le 03/10/2013 13:02, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) a écrit :
One draft I'm working on references some standard NIST cryptographic
documents. (RFCs don't include everything we need.)  I need to check
some details therein. Unfortunately the current US government
shutdown has taken NIST's website, including those documents,
offline. And (not considering this possibility) I didn't download
copies of them.

Any link to where copies of such documents are kept would be useful.
(Of course I haven't been able to check the copyright on them to
know if that's legal, so there may be no appropriate site.)

Otherwise, consider the above an observation.


Same here - I have problems accessing documents at NASA about IP network
mobility.

The error message says:
"Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not
available. We sincerely regret this inconvenience. For information about
available government services, visit USA.gov."

(roland.grc.nasa.gov/ redirects to notice.usa.gov/)

Whereas I could find the document in Google's cache, I am dubious
about this situation.

I would have not imagined that documents in a US gov website would
become unavailable - for political reasons?  I would imagine engineering
problems like routing system failures, Internet meltdown...

OK, so I'm not going to take a stand about the politics involved.  Trying to 
avoid wearing out my delete key, can we agree that the situation is a bummer, 
there's nothing we can do about it and we have a way to route around the 
damage.  Nothing more to contribute here, please move along...

Thanks and this will be my last post in this thread...

- Ralph


Alex



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