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<p>I want to use STL with the current program I'm working on and the vendor doesn't support what I feel is a reasonable STL, working is not my idea of reasonable.  I have been unable to find a C++ Standard or an STL standard that is not just an API that leaves me wondering if my interpretation is correct or if the vendor interpretation is correct.  I've already spent a great deal of time at <a href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/table_of_contents.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SGI's site</a>.  Any reccomendations?  Also, is there any document that's not an API that would be considered the standard?</p>

The Standard is available as a PDF for ANSI.org.  ($18 last time I checked, downloadable).
$18 for a downloadable PDF was considered a breakthrough, since previously ANSI only sold it standards in hardcopy form, for several thousand dollars a copy. (Normally, ANSI standards have a very limit market -- only motorcycle helmet manufacturers are going to buy the ANSI Standard for motorcycle helmets etc), and Standard sales was the primary way ANSI financed it's operation.
Each national standards body in ISO can make the Standard available as they see fit.  I'm told British Standards had made a deal to publish it in book form, but I don't know it taht ever came about.