"Vanguard" <no@mail.invalid> wrote in message news:bpOdnX8OYsuqmlXYnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@comcast.com
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:52noruF1pa94kU1@mid.individual.net...
> > Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
> > > Rod Speed wrote
> > > > Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
> >
> > > > > Unfortunately it costs to get copies of the ATA specs from
> > > > > http://www.t13.org/
> >
> > > > The drafts are readily available for free and that detail didnt
> > > > change.
> >
> > > They are?
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > > Got a URL for the free copy of the full specs for all ATA revisions?
> >
> > I never said anything about all ATA revisions.
> >
> > > What I see at
> > > http://www.t13.org/Standards/Default...ocumentStage=2
> > > is a list (but no links for them) and the comment "Copies of
> > > published standards may be purchased from: ANSI, ...".
> > > Where are the free copies then?
> >
> > http://www.t13.org/Documents/Default...ocumentStage=2
> > http://www.t13.org/Documents/Default...ocumentStage=1

> I was asking about the actual ratified and approved specifications,

Which obviously will wildly deviate from the last draft just before they
applied the stamp of approval to it.

> not drafts of proposals for those specs. I don't believe "drafts" are
> the actual standard. I had asked about getting the standards spec.

Idjut.

> I didn't realizer you were pointing at a list that contained some drafts
> that proposed those specs. Some entries are just 2-page descriptions or
> placeholders, hardly what would be called a standard specification.
> Some are docs containing corrections, so hardly a specification. Some
> are just entries in the table listing but with no link to an actual doc.
> The specs still cost money.