Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3140 comp.std.misc:42 comp.mail.misc:1181 comp.mail.uucp:1656 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!lll-tis!kehres From: kehres@tis.llnl.gov (Tim Kehres) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.std.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Standardizing Email? Keywords: Wouldn't it be nice Message-ID: <22379@tis.llnl.gov> Date: 18 Aug 88 02:01:00 GMT References: <788@vsi.UUCP> <145@chiron.UUCP> <25924@think.UUCP> Reply-To: kehres@tis.llnl.gov (Tim Kehres) Distribution: comp Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA Lines: 12 In article <25924@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes: : > I believe ANS.1 is described in X.409, "Message Handling Systems: > Presentation Transfer Syntax and Notation". However, it never > actually seems to use the phrase "Abstract Syntax Notation", nor the > abbreviation ANS.1. ASN.1 has evolved from 1984 X.409. The most current documents that I have on ASN.1 are ISO 8824 (DIS) and ISO 8825 (DIS). The specification of ASN.1 will no longer be part of the X.400 series of recommendations. Tim Kehres