barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (02/15/90)
There is a thing in OSI called a System Title. It is defined (in 7498-3, I believe) as (essentially) the unique name of a particular Real Open System - sort of like a host name. I would like to know anything more concrete about them that is knowable. For example: Does any standard define what a system title looks like in any identifiable frame of reference (ASN.1, bit encodings, ...)? Is there any specific OSI use to which the System Title is (or will be) put? Network management seemed like a possibility, but I was not able to pin this down clearly with moderate effort. I found in the RFC1066 Internet TCP/IP MIB something called sysObjectID whose value seems to conceptually resemble a System Title, and its definition defines an abstract representation and thus an encoding of this title-like thing, but this does not give me much of a clue about whether System Titles are envisioned as things that one will use in OSI NM. It seems plausible that a System Title would be represented as an Object Identifier, but I haven't even found an explicit statement to that effect. Does anyone out there have any pointers to useful information? /Bill Barns
jane@CiTRUS.citr.uq.oz (Jane Clark) (02/20/90)
In article <9002151418.AA00530@arcturus.mitre.org> barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG writes: >There is a thing in OSI called a System Title. It is defined (in 7498-3, >I believe) [ ... ] > > Does any standard define what a system title looks like in any > identifiable frame of reference (ASN.1, bit encodings, ...)? > > Is there any specific OSI use to which the System Title is (or will > be) put? Network management seemed like a possibility, but I was > not able to pin this down clearly with moderate effort. [ ... ] > >It seems plausible that a System Title would be represented as an >Object Identifier, but I haven't even found an explicit statement to >that effect. Does anyone out there have any pointers to useful >information? I've been wondering the same thing. My modest researches have not turned up much. The System Title does seem to appear in OSI Management, as "SystemID". The reference is: SMI - Part 2 2nd DP 10165 - 2 (JTC1 / SC21 / N 4072) In this document, the syntax is given as a Graphic String. However, like you, I think Object Identifier would be better. For one thing, System Title as an object identifier would mean that Application Process Titles can be arcs taken off the System Title node in the Object Identifier tree. (Should System Title then have a "sequence of RDNs" format as well, as AP-Title does? AP-Title is defined in (draft?) addendum to ASCE protocol, ISO 8650, "as a result of Defect Report 8650/004".) Any comments, anyone? Jane Jane Clark | Centre for Information Technology Research | jane@citrus.citr.uq.oz.au University of Queensland | uunet!citrus.citr.uq.oz!jane PHONE: +61-7-377-2911 FAX: +61-7-371-3044 |