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on Wed, 3 Nov 2004, "Dobson, Malcolm"
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>Surely, if these drafts are for consultation, they should be available
>free? Otherwise the consultation is going to be skewed. I would not
>feel justified in spending £40 of my very limited budget on an
>publication with a life span of two months.
As a member of the Working Party that prepared them, I can only say that
we strongly agree with this comment. We should like to make them freely
available on the Web, as NISO does with its standards and drafts, but
BSI has a different policy . . .
Leonard Will
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