Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: ROTONDI%CSATA.IATIN.IT@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Domenico Rotondi) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: ISO conferencing? Message-ID: <9007232232.aa25072@ICS.UCI.EDU> Date: 24 Jul 90 21:05:27 GMT Lines: 61 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 18 Jul 90 01:06:40 +0200 Replied: Mon, 23 Jul 90 23:59:25 -0700 Replied: Jerry Sweet Replied: Domenico Rotondi x-attn: jns On Wed, 18 Jul 90 01:06:40 +0200 you said: >(I asked on the general ISO group last week and drew only silence, so >perhaps the X.400 groups would be more appropriate. I'm relatively >new to ISO stuff, and perhaps this is an old topic. If so, please >forgive me and help me come up-to-date!) > >RFC822 is to RFC1036 as X.400 is to ??? > > (or, alternatively phrased,) > >mail is to news as MHS IPM is to ??? There is nothing ready at the moment. ISO (specifically SC18/WG4 Special working group on MOTIS) is starting working on, what ISO calls, Group Communication. At the moment there are only some very preliminary working document listing, essencially, the set of functionalities this new service will provide. Also in the phase of defition is the exact scope the Group Communication will cover (i.e. just providing Bulletin Boards functionalities or also Computer Conferencing or also general functionalities to support group work). > >I see in the Blue Book X.400/7.4 that "One MS [Message Store] acts on >behalf of only one user (one O/R address), i.e. it does not provide a >common or shared MS capability to several users." In X.400/14 You're right, the MS is just a single-user mail repository. It has nothing to do with supporting tools for DL or news. >Should I look more closely at X.402, X.411, X.413, or somewhere else >that distributed conferencing issues have been considered? Has >ISO/CCITT arrived at an alternative to the current news technology, or >will the ISO world run on the moral equivalent of the distribution >lists that have been largely discarded in the Internet world? Any >pointers are appreciated. > I hope I've answered to your questions. For the time being (or better in the near future, when X.400-88 MTAs will appear) the only available services will the the one based on DL. We hope to have a rapid developement of the Group Communication standards so that, also in the OSI world, could be used advanced communications facilities. Ciao Dom --------------------------------- Domenico Rotondi Tecnopolis - CSATA Novus Ortus Strada Provinciale per CASAMASSIMA Km.3 70010 VALENZANO (BARI) ITALY Tel +39-80-8770227 / 8770111 Tlx 810371 TECPOL I Ttx 2221-818506 CSATABA I Fax +39-80-651868 (CCITT G3) EARN ROTONDI @ IBACSATA or ROTONDI @ CSATA.IATIN.IT or dom @ lapd.csata.iatin.it