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From: prafulla@uts.amdahl.com (Prafulla Mishra)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Standard for two-phase commit
Keywords: DTP, XA
Message-ID: <75Pg02nJc56101@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 19:03:43 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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> derek@asteroids.bellcore.com (Derek Fields)
>Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway NJ
>
>Does anyone know how I can get information on current standards
>for two-phase commit in a distributed environment.  I know that the

  The OSI Distributed Transaction Processing(DTP) standard
    - ISO/IEC DIS 10026.1 (1989)(model)
    - ISO/IEC DIS 10026.2 (1989)(service)
    - ISO/IEC DIS 10026.3 (1989)(protocol)
  The OSI Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery(CCR) standard
    - ISO/IEC 9804.3(1989)(service)
    - ISO/IEC 9805.3(1989)(protocol)

>specified.  I thought it was X/Open, but I can't find any mention
>in the documentation for X/Open.  Any help would be greatly

  X/Open Preliminary Specification(April 1990)
  Distributed Transaction Processing: The XA interface

Hope that helps,

Prafulla Mishra
oltp group, Amdahl 
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