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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
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Subject: Re: Anyone know about X.400?
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 13:46:17 EST
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Yes, people with the right connections can get a rather fat volume 
from Bell Northern research.  Ian Cunningham  (BNR) is the reporter
for the CCITT group.  The final draft of X.400-X.430 was fixed at
Brighton UK in October 83, and will go to the Study Group VII this
month some time, and to CCITT Plenary later this year.

Earlier drafts of the documents have been circulated within IFIP
Working group 6.5.  The draft recommendations are numbered as follows:

DR X.400 - Message handling systems: System Model-Service elements
DR X.401 -  " " ": Basic Service Elements and Optional User Facilities
DR X.408 -  " " ": Encoded Information Type Conversion Rules
DR X.409 -  " " ": Presentation Transfer Syntax and Notation
			defines an arcane variation on BNF
DR X.410 -  " " ": Remote Operations and Reliable Transfer Service
DR X.411 -  " " ": Message Transfer Layer
			defines the P1 and P3 protocols
DR X.420 -  " " ": Interpersonal Messaging User Agent Layer
			defines the P2 protocol
DR X.430 -  " " ": Access Protocol for Teletex Terminals