erik@naggum.no (Erik Naggum) (05/29/91)
Unearthed from the tremendous masses of paper known as ISO working
documents, I have in front of me ISO/TC 97/SC 18 N 852 "Comparison
Between the Main ODA and SGML Objectives and Proposal for Future
Work", written by a group of German experts. Even though this
document is dated 1986-11-07, it is highly valuable reading. I think
it's a little biased towards ODA, but in general, it's a good analysis
of both standards, and raises many good and valid points.
The document consists of an ISO cover page and 10 pages with nice
tables that it would be hard to make available electronically with
existing USENET support facilities. It seems impossible to get old
documents out of ISO or any national standards body ("We can barely
keep track of the volume of working documents as it passes through us.
Archiving all of it for five years is asking a bit too much."), so I
will send out copies to a limited number of interested parties by
snail mail.
If you would like a copy, send me your postal address. Should the
volume of requests be large, I will try to find people who can copy
and re-distribute locally. If you know that you can do this, I would
appreciate knowing about it now.
</Erik>
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