Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 ; site lvbull.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!vmucnam!lvbull!sylvain
From: sylvain@lvbull.UUCP (Sylvain Langlois)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: IP variants
Message-ID: <303@lvbull.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:22:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: lvbull.303
Posted: Wed Oct 17 05:22:29 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 06:48:36 EDT
References: , <397@cbosgd.UUCP>
Organization: BULL, Louveciennes, France
Lines: 28

(< Crunch, Crunch...>)
Let me join the game!
We , here in Europe, have got what is called a "Standardization Body" called
ECMA, which is supposed to gather all the european Computers Manufacturers
(By the way, IBM is sitting at the table....!).
This Organisation has written a document called ECMA 92, which is at this 
moment a working document (still DP or something equivalent!) and which
talks about an ... Internet Protocol. And guess what... IP seems to be
a subset of this Protocol!!
I don't know exactly what's going on in the ISO house about this subject,
but I've read somewhere that the ISO "IP" should be voted to DIS in the
very near future!! So there should be a document about it somewhere!!
The thing is that ECMA and ISO are working hand in hand and reading
ECMA 92 give me a good idea of what should be ISO Internet Protocol.
Of course, I know the ISO side better than the DARPA one, but I promise
I will IP specs better...
An other point is that NATO (hope I spelled it right, we call it OTAN
over here!) has decided to switch to ISO Architecture in the near future.
I guess it will influence ARPA too!!
I'm interesting in what is going on at DARPA now, could anybody (Mark?)
give me more infos.
Thanx in advance...

---- Sylvain Langlois (...mcvax!vmucnam!lvbull!sylvain) ---

PS: We are having problems with incoming news sometimes, mail answers
are welcome (as a backup of news articles!).