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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a member of the Dominican order. The Dominicans had kept alive the Greek secrets of memory, first perfected by the poet Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468? B.C.). Before the printing press, mnemonic methods for remembering verse or other forms of knowledge were the only ways to pass that information on.

Bruno, after mastering the Dominican secrets, revealed them to the rest of the world in his classic, Shadow of Ideas (1582). A noted advocate of free thought, Bruno was accused by the Inquisition in 1592 of various acts of heresy, including making bad jokes about God. He was convicted and burned at the stake in 1600.

The ITU-T Recommendations developed by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT) constitute the basis for international telecommunication standards. They are based on studies of technical, operating and tariff questions and serve to standardise telecommunications on a world-wide basis.

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1988 CCITT Blue Book

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1992 Series

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These documents originated from an archive at bruno.cs.colorado.edu (which no longer exists). I have tried to extend the useful life of this information by adding web-accessable indexes and HTML conversions. Up-to-date versions of these documents may be purchased from the ITU-T. The ITU authoriziation for the release of these documents is available in three formats, text, postscript, and TIFF. The usage conditions for these documents waive all guarantees. Carl Malamud's account of making these standards available for on-line (at no cost) is told in his book Exploring The Internet (available in full, on-line).