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From: kc@cbnewsl.att.com (keith.coulson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: ACSE API?
Summary: UI
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.194755.25765@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 19:47:55 GMT
References: <9101302049.AA07086@gateway.mitre.org>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <9101302049.AA07086@gateway.mitre.org>, barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG writes:
> Are any of the multitudes of standards groups or quasi-standards groups
> working on a generic API to ACSE (plus Presentation, so you can actually
> do something while you are associated, of course)?  I would appreciate
> hearing of any actual, planned, or rumored activities of this kind.
> I have never heard of any, but I don't know everything.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bill Barns / MITRE-Washington / barns@gateway.mitre.org

The OSI working group of UNIX International has one called APLI
(ACSE/Presentation Library Interface). This working group is open
to non-UI members. The interface spec has been submitted to X/Open.
The technical manager at UI involved with this is Helene Armitage
(helene@uinj.ui.org).

Keith Coulson
UNIX System Labs
kc@cbnewsl.att.com