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From: joel@cs.arizona.edu (Joel M. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Official Document Describing OSI Reference Model
Keywords: OSI Reference Model ISO FIPS
Message-ID: <19274@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 17:43:52 GMT
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Reply-To: jms@mis.arizona.edu (Joel M. Snyder)
Organization: U of Arizona MIS Dep't
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I sent this in EMAIL, but here's a posted reply:

ISO 7498, "Information Processing Systems --- Open Systems Interconnection ---
Basic Reference Model,"  the International Organization for Standardization.

There are also additional addenda, called 7498/1, 7498/2, etc, dealing
with connectionless services, multipeer data transfer, naming and addressing,
and security (last one from memory; I wrote the original reply while
at the office).  Not all of the addenda are "standards;" there is a sequence
which goes DP, DIS, IS (Draft Protocol, Draft IS, Intl Std) and some of
them are more or less along in that sequence.  

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an 800- number.

Joel Snyder
Standards Folk