Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3150 comp.std.misc:47 comp.mail.misc:1185 comp.mail.uucp:1664 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!uxc!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!mmm!com50!dpmizar!bar From: bar@dpmizar.sw.Datapoint.COM (Brian Ruptash) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Standardizing Email? Keywords: OSI, ASN.1 Message-ID: <162@dpmizar.sw.Datapoint.COM> Date: 18 Aug 88 15:14:48 GMT References: <145@chiron.UUCP> <123@modcomp.UUCP> Reply-To: bar@sw.datapoint.com (Brian Ruptash) Distribution: comp Organization: Datapoint Corporation, San Antonio, TX Lines: 29 > 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