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From: bar@dpmizar.sw.Datapoint.COM (Brian Ruptash)
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Subject: Re: Standardizing Email?
Keywords: OSI, ASN.1
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Date: 18 Aug 88 15:14:48 GMT
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>	DIS 8824	Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation
>			One (ASN.1)
>	DIS 8825	Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for
>			Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)

IS 8824 and 8825 are now full-fledged International Standards.  IS 8824
was published on 87.12.15, IS 8825 on 87.11.15.  They should be
available from your ISO member body (ANSI in the U.S., SCC in Canada).
IS 8824 corresponds to JTC1/SC21 N2159, and IS 8825 to N2160, so if you
already have those, you can save the fortune the national member bodies
charge for the final ISs printed in Geneva...

> P.S.  If anyone can direct me towards a GOOD book on OSI, I would
> again be greatful.  OSI is the basis for an international networking
> standard.  Anyone wanting to learn about X.400 should learn this as
> well.

Stallings is OK, but by far the best one I've found is "Standards for
Open Systems Interconnection", by Keith Knightson, Terry Knowles and
John Larmouth, McGraw-Hill, 1988 (ISBN 0-07-035119-8).  These guys are
all key participants in the ISO and CCITT work, representing a
cross-section of all the activities, and most certainly know their
stuff.

There have been several tutorials produced by the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC21
working groups on their respective projects; you may want to get a hold
of those as well.

-- Brian