danny@uunet.uu.net> (02/12/90)
Right now the NIUF (North American ISDN User's Forum) has a committee formulating the standard set of conformance tests for the North American ISDN standard. The tests they will end up with are known as the ACT23, or [North] American Conformance Tests for layer 2 and 3. I know that most of the carriers and vendors are members of this organization and that the final standard they arrive at will be adopted as the standard set of tests for both COS (Corporation for Open Systems) and US GOSIP. However, there are some points unclear. Bellcore already has an ISDN conformance testing standard from _several_ years ago. As I understand it, it is suffciently out of date so that it does not apply to either the 1984 or the 1988 version of ISDN. Can anyone out there comment on whether Bellcore and/or AT&T will be moving towards the ACT23 conformance tests, thus replacing the current Bellcore tests? It would seem to be inevitable regarding the necessity of meeting GOSIP and the increasing importance of standards and conformance testing in general. Danny Wilson danny@idacom.uucp IDACOM Electronics alberta!idacom!danny Edmonton, Alberta X.400 danny@idacom.cs.ubc.cdn C A N A D A Voice +1 403 462 4545