rfrye@netexa.UUCP (Rob Frye) (03/19/86)
[The original article to which I'm replying came from net.lan. I'm reposting the questions that article asked.] Philip Prindeville writes: > I haven't heard much about CCITT protocols getting much acceptance > in UNIX circles lately, with the exception of the EAN message > system from the University of British Columbia C.S. Department. > It has been installed at several sites, and is available for a > reasonable fee. > (1) Does anyone in net-land know of an implementation of > CCITT protocols (X.25 for [say] a DMF-32 as a network > interface, or X.224/X.225 network/transport socket code, > or an X.410 (et. al.) mailer)? X.25 has been implemented on various machines under Unix, Xenix, etc. Some companies offering such that come to mind are TITN, Systech, MorningStar, Gateway/Source, The Software Group, and XDot. I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I've found have more than vaporware. ** Begin Product Non-Announcement ** I don't know if anyone has X.224/X.225 available commercially. We will be building it into our Electronic Image Transmission products; currently we use T.70/T.62 which are also CCITT protocols (and are subsets of the full X.224/5) geared towards document/teletext/facsimile usage. We run X.410 and X.411 P1 on top of all that. I don't think there are any plans to sell just the comm software, but the whole product complete... ** End Product Non-Announcement ** I know that AT&T Bell Labs folks are interested in this and there has been much discussion in the net.mail* newsgroups about uucp, RFC, X.400 and ARPA domains and how in the hell they all fit together. Comments? > (2) If yes, how is it and are sources available? ??? Anyone with any such products want to say? > (3) Is there enough interest on the net to start a group > specifically about CCITT/ISO standards and their > implementations? (Hallo Europe? Canada?) I would like to start a group for that, but isn't net.dcom the right place for that? (And of course net.news.group for the proposal.) > I had heard that the Swedish PTT (Post, Telegraph & Telephone) had > implemented it, but I thought that was heresay. The German PTT (Deutches Bundespost) has an X.400 system operating today, tho I don't know any more than that. KDD (Japan) has interconnected with Univ of British Columbia in their X.400 mail system. -- ---> -- "You can Telenet, but you can't tell it much." Rob Frye, NetExpress Inc. {seismo,rlgvax}!hadron!{netex,netexa}!rfrye
plattner@unizh.UUCP (03/26/86)
We have been users of EAN for more than one year. You might know that in Europe a Message Handling net has been built based on OSI protocols (the implementation used is EAN). EAN consists of 7 P2 P1 RTS 6 empty 5 X.225 BAS 4 X.224 Class 0 3 several networks (PSTN, X.25 (using a simple driver), INET DECnet) EAN is available for VAX/VMS, UNIX 4.2bsd, UNIX System V, soon VM/CMS (list is incomplete) As for other OSI Implementations: RETIX, Santa Monica, CA (213) 829-4922 offers MAP (=selection of OSI protocols), FTAM, X.400 MHS software, written in C, claimed to be portable. They sell source licenses. Bernhard Plattner cernvax!unizh!plattner cernvax!ifi.unizh.chunet!plattner