On May 12, 2011, at 10:41 58AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> --On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 16:43 -0400 Steven Bellovin
> <s...@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>>> 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,
>
> It seems to me that this policy applies to documents published
> by the IEEE and that it has no direct effect on IETF (or RFC
> Editor)-published documents.
My comment was in reply to Masataka Ohta's note saying that he
often evades the pricing on things like IEEE or ACM pappers
by finding free ones online. That looks like it won't be possible
going forward.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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