aliu@houvmscc.vnet.ibm.COM (04/06/91)
There were quite a few discussions recently on using X.400 as gateway to proprietary mail systems. Can X.400 gateway, or any kind of application gateways, be certified as GOSIP compliant later? Do you have to use X.400 as your primary mail system for your organization to be certified as GOSIP compliant? Your response is appreciated. Alex Liu FSD Houston, IBM
koorland@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca (Neil Koorland) (04/10/91)
> There were quite a few discussions recently on using X.400 as gateway to > proprietary mail systems. Can X.400 gateway, or any kind of > application gateways, be certified as GOSIP compliant later? Do you > have to use X.400 as your primary mail system for your organization > to be certified as GOSIP compliant? Firstly, only implementations can be tested for compliance, not organizations. And even if your organization was using a GOSIP certified implementation, you might still be non-compliant depending on your particular operational use of that implementation in your environment. Having said that however, compliance is evaluated by testing only the external behaviour of your system whether its native X.400 or some flavour of gateway. Basically the tester should have no way of even knowing whether it was testing a gateway or a native X.400 system. So as long the X.400 half of the gateway was able to behave in a compliant manner with respect to protocol (P1,P2,RTS etc.) and service (correct handling of service requests/events) support, there is no reason why it should not be certified as GOSIP compliant by one of the acredited agencies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Koorland OSIware Inc. Tel: +1-604-436-2922 200-4370 Dominion St Fax: +1-604-436-3192 Burnaby, B.C. CANADA V5G 4L7 Internet: <koorland@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------