X3J11 response to comments

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5103 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> peter at athena.mit.edu (Peter J Desnoyers) writes:
>From what I understand, the fee
>charged isn't bad when you consider that these people send someone to
>every ANSI meeting, and are supposed to keep track of all the changes
>pencilled in in the course of the meeting. 

What in the world are you talking about?  The only person who necessarily
keeps track of every change is the Redactor, who like the rest of us is a
volunteer.  The document that Global Engineering eventually sells is just
a copy of the draft provided by the Redactor.  Certainly X3J11 does not
receive any income from the sale of documents by Global Engineering; the
cost of attending meetings, reproduction and mailing, etc. is borne by the
individual Committee members and the organizations they represent.