Date: 16 Jun 1998

ISO, ANSI, and IEEE standards are usually sold to raise some of the funds
that the various national and international standards bodies (who usually
own the copyright) need to keep afloat; thus they are not normally avail­
able electronically.  Also, the organizations are concerned that electron­
ic copies would make it too easy for people to disseminate doctored ver­
sions of the standards.

Some IEEE standards are available by annual electronic subscription;  see
http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/ (available using the World-Wide
Web via URL http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/)

ISO standards may be purchased from:
In Canada:
    Standards Council of Canada / Conseil canadien des normes
    1200-45 O'Connor,
    Ottawa K1P 6N7
    Phone: (613) 238-3222
    Fax:   (613) 995-4564
On CD-ROM:
    Omnicom, Inc.
    115 Park St. SE
    Vienna, VA 22180-4607
    1-800-OMNICOM
    Also available through the National Technical Information Service
    (NTIS), 5284 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22161, (703)
    487-4650.
ANSI and ANSI equivalent ISO standards are available from
    ASQC Quality Press
    Customer Service Department
    P.O. Box 3066
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-3066
    Voice: (800) 248-1946
    FAX:   (414) 272-1734

For ITU (formerly CCITT) standards, see the ITU gopher server, (available us­
ing the World-Wide Web via URL gopher://info.itu.ch)or use their mail server:
mail to itudoc@itu.ch with no subject and the following body:
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There were once some CCITT standards on-line at the University of Colorado,
but the arrangement to make them available via the Internet was terminated at
the end of 1991.