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From: HURAS@IBMLABNN.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: ACSE/Pres API
Message-ID: <91Feb6.084830est.57482@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 6 Feb 91 08:45:04 GMT
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>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.

YES.  MAP/TOP have published a complete ACSE/Pres API in the MAP/TOP
specification (version 3.0).  The 'Private Communications API' as it
is called, is intended to be OS-neutral -- equally applicable to
any OS (UNIX, DOS, OS/2...). I know of at least 2 currently available
implementations.

Matt Huras    HURAS @ IBMLABNN.BITNET