[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] X.xxx protocols?

BACON@MTUS5.BITNET (Jeffery K. Bacon) (06/30/89)

I know that perhaps this isn't the best place to ask, but for lack of
a better one:

Does anyone know where we here might be able to ftp copies of the X.400
specs (and anything we may need to see that's related)? We're working
on setting up campus mail, and I'd like to see just what X.400 IS before
I (we) throw the idea out the window, especially since we might have to
migrate to it someday.

Perhaps another question worth asking: Can one implement X.400 stds on top
of what is essentially a TCP/IP environment? Or do we even want to try?
This probably sounds like a stupid question


Jeffery Bacon
Academic Computing Svcs., Michigan Technological University
bitnet: bacon@mtus5  uucp: <backbone>!rutgers!umix!anet!bacos

mrose@cheetah.nyser.net (Marshall Rose) (07/01/89)

> Perhaps another question worth asking: Can one implement X.400 stds on top
> of what is essentially a TCP/IP environment? Or do we even want to try?
> This probably sounds like a stupid question

RFC1006 defines a method for hosting just about any OSI application on
top of a TCP/IP environment.  As far as X.400 over TCP/IP goes, there is
already an implementation that does in the UK this written by the University
College London and University of Nottingham.  The code is going to alpha
in July.  Look for an openly available release by the end of the year.

/mtr