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<font color="#0000FF">At 08:41 AM 4/4/2005, Scott Burleigh wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The
OMG specification is freely available from
<a href="http://www.omg.org/" eudora="autourl">www.omg.org</a> in the
documents section. Its document ID is: formal/04-12-02.pdf, Data
Distribution Service.</blockquote><font color="#0000FF">Excellent.
But I believe that section of the web site is available to members only,
and membership charges range from $500 to $12,000 per year, so
unfortunately I still can't easily read the
document.</font></blockquote><br>
If you try to access pre-finalization, OMG-proprietary specifications you
get led to a member search at:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/membersearch.pl" eudora="autourl">http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/membersearch.pl<br><br>
</a>If you then search for NASA you get a link to
<a href="http://www.grc.nasa.gov/">NASA</a> at Glenn Research Center and
you can similarly find a link to other places like the
<a href="http://www.esoc.esa.de">European Space Operation Centre
(ESOC)</a> and to <a href="http://www.ccsds.org">CCSDS</a>. All, I
believe, have institutional memberships in the OMG. Whether or not anyone
at those places has access to the secret-decoder-ring user name and
password is another question. I've certainly never been given
them.<br><br>
///adrian</body>
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