X3J11 response to comments (was: Block Closure)

[Shankar Unni]

>
>Perhaps they didn't care to pay $50 (or however much CBEMA was charging) 
>for the latest standard, without which they cannot make a formal complaint
>that has to be listened to (or at least so I read on the net).
>
>Moral: if X3J11/ANSI wanted broad participation in drafting the standard,
>they should have made the standard available in machine readable form,

I agree. It's rather unreasonable to have to shell out such a large sum in
order to be able to send in a couple of comments. On the other hand (playing
devil's advocate), maybe X3J11 didn't want to wade through 30,000 comments
claiming that "noalias must go; this is non-negotiable" :-). To put it
another way, put your money where your mouth is :-) :-)

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>in this group.

Now that's considerably harder. Maybe if they had a copy for anonymous FTP,
that would be OK (that way, *you*'re paying for the phone cost of transferring
it), but as a posting, it's too huge. My paper copy of the standard proposal
is 3/4" of double-sided copy...

--shankar