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Re: standards and copyrighted specifications

• From: KenNorth <KenNorth@e...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@x...
• Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:35:45 -0700

> ISO participation did not start until the second version
> (VRML97).  At that point, it was decided that an official
> home for the spec was needed and some of us successfully
> plead for ISO.

The key objection that some developers have to ISO is the controlled
distribution of the standards documents (ISO  specifications).

What brought about the ISO VRML standard specification being
freely-available?
http://www.vrml.org/fs_specifications.htm

Is it because the VRML Consortium copyrighted the specification before
sending it to ISO?

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