On May 10, 2011, at 5:22 43PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Bob Braden wrote: > >> I wonder how many other IEEE standards contain similar >> RFC-for-pay references.. > > It's common (much more than 50% for academic ones, IMHO) that > sold articles are freely available on-line. > > For example, a PDF file of the paper "End-to-end arguments in > system design" can be purchased for $15 from: > > http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1145/357401.357402 > > which is the first link appears in google scholar search with > the paper title, or, from: > > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=357401.357402 > > to which the above IEEE link is redirected, but is available > free of charge from: > > http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf > > which is the second link (next to google scholar one) with plain > google search. > > 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 Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf