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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Who issues Ethernet numbers now?
Message-ID: <4753@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 01:43:29 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.4753
Posted: Fri Dec 19 01:43:29 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 02:38:56 EST
References: <402@cernvax.UUCP> <224@rocksanne.UUCP> <188@ico.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Advanced Systems Planning
Lines: 30
Keywords: Ethernet ISO OSI IEEE Registration COS
Summary: Registration Authorities are badly needed

In article <188@ico.UUCP> dougm@violet.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum) writes:

> ...
> For those interested, ISO TC 97 voted at the October meeting to
> progress the 8802/3 DIS (Draft International Standard) to IS
> (International Standard) and forwarded it to the Secretariat for
> publication.  ISO 8802/4 and 8802/5 also moved to IS level.

Doug has the right idea, but some of the details are wrong.  The meeting he
mentions was actually ISO TC97/SC6 and its working groups.
	WG1	Data Link Layer (including HDLC, the 8802 series, etc.)
	WG2	Network Layer (including 8473 [ISO IP], 8208 [ISO X.25], etc.)
	WG3	Physical Layer (including connectors, etc.)
	WG4	Transport Layer (including 8073 [of which TP4 is part], etc.)
The next actual TC97 meeting is in January.  As I was busy in WG2 (and eating
raw fish since we were in Tokyo) I would have to check my copy of the final
resolutions for the details of which pieces of 8802 were forwarded to the
Central Secretariat for processing as an IS.  I am fairly sure 8802/3 was,
8802/4 and 8802/5 may be, 8802/2 was not (a second DIS ballot was needed).

The broader issue of registration authorities for many OSI related items is
still the subject of much discussion.  The number of things to keep track of
is large, the number of volunteers few.  It is possible that The Corporation
for Open Systems (COS) may offer to act as registration authority for some
of the open areas, but more discussion is needed.  A special meeting of an
ISO TC97/SC21 group concerned with this issue is scheduled for January 1987.
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Steve Langdon  ...!{decwrl,sun,hplabs,ihnp4,cbosgd}!amdahl!sjl  +1 408 746 6970

[I speak for myself not others.]