barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (01/31/91)
Are any of the multitudes of standards groups or quasi-standards groups working on a generic API to ACSE (plus Presentation, so you can actually do something while you are associated, of course)? I would appreciate hearing of any actual, planned, or rumored activities of this kind. I have never heard of any, but I don't know everything. Thanks in advance, Bill Barns / MITRE-Washington / barns@gateway.mitre.org
rick@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (01/31/91)
Early on (3 or 4 years ago) there was a MAP/TOP group working on defining an API for ACSE/Presentation and for FTAM and X.400. I believe this activity has been picked up by another organization, but I don't remember for sure who, maybe IEEE as part of the POSIX work? -Rick Wilder
kc@cbnewsl.att.com (keith.coulson) (02/01/91)
In article <9101302049.AA07086@gateway.mitre.org>, barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG writes: > Are any of the multitudes of standards groups or quasi-standards groups > working on a generic API to ACSE (plus Presentation, so you can actually > do something while you are associated, of course)? I would appreciate > hearing of any actual, planned, or rumored activities of this kind. > I have never heard of any, but I don't know everything. > > Thanks in advance, > > Bill Barns / MITRE-Washington / barns@gateway.mitre.org The OSI working group of UNIX International has one called APLI (ACSE/Presentation Library Interface). This working group is open to non-UI members. The interface spec has been submitted to X/Open. The technical manager at UI involved with this is Helene Armitage (helene@uinj.ui.org). Keith Coulson UNIX System Labs kc@cbnewsl.att.com