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Well, it's not a great example, because I don't have a 'counter-example', but I think it will remain to be seen if ISO 20775 goes anywhere if it, too, remains behind a pay wall. If an open spec were to come along that allowed the transfer of holdings and availability information that was decent and simple it would basically render ISO 20775 irrelevant (if the pay wall doesn't already). RDA, I think, might also suffer from this problem. -Ross. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Walter Lewis<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > William Wueppelmann wrote: >> >> [snip] >> I'm not entirely sure that TCP/IP and the other IETF RFCs became >> established because of restrictions placed on OSI. I was under the >> impression that OSI was also insanely complicated and that the IETF >> standards were much cheaper to implement from a technical standpoint. And, >> from a product standpoint, in the mid-90s, there were still a lot of bets >> being placed on closed online services like AOL, MSN, and Compuserve. > > Not to mention the book I once saw on MS Blackbird ... (MSN .0001?) which, > thankfully, was abandonned before leaving the nest. >>>>> >>>>> Any examples closer to the library world? > > What I had been hoping for were data standards more in the library space. > I've read ANSI's Z.39.19 which deals with Monolingual thesauri. > (a copy lives here: http://www.slis.kent.edu/~mzeng/Z3919/8Z3919toc.htm) > Near as I can tell the parallel multi-lingual standard is ISO 5964 and is > available at > > http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?ics1=01&ics2=140&ics3=20&csnumber=12159 > for a fee of 168 Swiss francs (CHF) or ~$155USD > > I pay attention to the one, and never expect to read the other. > > This past week I was on the edge of another discussion of standards with > associated controlled vocabularies (in the K-12 domain) where a criticism > was raised that it wasn't Creative Commons with an Attribution requirement, > else how could you teach it? > > That got me thinking about whether we shouldn't have already learned that > lesson because the 'net largely runs on public RFCs, but wondered if I > wasn't missing other examples inside our domain. > > Walter >