3GPP specifications:
http://www.3gpp.org/specs/specs.htm




From: Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ronnie Sahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Sudhanshu Shekhar Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] UMTS layer 3 - NAS PDU dissection & PDCP dissection
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:06 -0700


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:51:52PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> Unfortunately ccitt/itu-t/etsi/whatever they call themself this week,

CCITT became ITU-T; ETSI is a separate organization.  ITU-T is a
worldwide standards organization; ETSI is a European one (although there
are probably ITU-T standards that aren't used worldwide, and ETSI
standards that are).

> as far as i remember from
> my telco days, do charge a rather significant amount of money for access to
> their standards, making it
> quite difficult for volunteers to write implementations.


ITU-T does charge a significant amount of money (I've certainly spent a
fair bit of money buying them, although the worst was, as I remember, on
the order of USD 100-USD 150 for a standard - others are cheaper), but
I'd be willing to subsidize the purchase of those to some degree.

ETSI doesn't charge anything:

http://www.etsi.org/getastandard/home.htm

"ETSI Standards can be downloaded free of charge on an individual basis
on the Publications Download Area"

and, as I remember, the 3G standards are on the ETSI Web site, hence
free.

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