shri@ncst.ernet.in ("H.Shrikumar") (10/02/90)
In article <9009200545.aa20609@ICS.UCI.EDU> ALGOLD%LNCC2@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold) writes: >"The big difference between TCP/IP and OSI is that the latter is copyrighted >by ISO, while TCP/IP is in the public domain" What exactly is copy-right by the ISO? The text of the document or the design of the protocols themselves, (can this be copyrighted at all) ? If the former case, the docs could be re-written, and placed in the public-domain (perhaps using clean-room approach). If indeed ISO is inflexible about it, a bunch of grad students could contribute to it. A worthy cause. -- shrikumar ( shri@ncst.in )