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From: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: ISO/OSI RPC Protocol?
Keywords: OSI RPC protocol
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.133742@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 90 17:37:00 GMT
References: <5370@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
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Reply-To: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company - Cooperative Object Computing Operation
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In article <5370@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>, jag@PacBell.COM (Jim Goncher) writes:
>I have been follwoing the debate here and in UNIX Today! between OSF/DCE/NCS
>and SUN/Netwise/ONC folk. In the August 20 issue of UNIX Today! reference
>is made by Richard Mackey of OSF to "the upcoming ISO/OSI RPC protocol."
>My ignorance may be showing, but what is he talking about? Is there a name
>for this service (e.g. ROSE, CMISE) and a standards number? What is the status
>of the standard? I know about ROSE (Remote Operations Service Element), but
>this is not what is being referenced is it? It's already in International
>Standards status....I think.

I don't know ALL the details (thank goodness), but my understanding is that
people who DO understand the details have decided that ROSE as currently
defined, while it looks sort of like RPC, is probably not sufficient in
several respects.  There is some ISO work group (or whatever such things
are officially called) investigating RPC.  I suspect they will be getting
input from ECMA (which has produced an RPC proposal) and ANSI (which has at
least been debating producing such a proposal).

>BTW - I have enjoyed the debate immensely. Thanks for all the interesting 
>viewpoints. Keep it up if there's more that needs to be said.

Hey Phil, we've found at least one other person who's crazy enough to
still be reading this (or hasn't figured out how to use "global kill"
on "RPC Technologies" :-)

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                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Cooperative Object Computing Operation
                       Hewlett-Packard Company
                       mishkin@apollo.hp.com