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From: stein@oscsuna.osc.edu (Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Remote Database Access Protocol?
Message-ID: <154@oscsuna.osc.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 14:28:03 GMT
References: <7928@fluke.COM> <23651@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: stein@OSCSUNA.UUCP (Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Organization: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Lines: 34
Summary:Don't call the NITS for this document
Distribution:na
Keywords:NISO, $35, Transaction Publishing, Inc.

In article <23651@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> andy@garnet.berkeley.edu (Andy Lieberman) writes:
>In article <7928@fluke.COM> foot@tc.fluke.COM (Andrew Proudfoot) writes:
>>I've seen passing references to a "Remote Database Access Protocol"
>>several times now.  Can anyone tell me what it is or refer me to some
>>literature describing it?  Thanks.
>
>Z39.50 has been recently dveloped by the National Info. Standards Organization.
>It bills itself as a "Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol
>Specification for Library Applications".
>
>The standard is available from:
>National Bureau of Standards
>Administration 101
>Library E-106
>Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
Actually, I phoned the NITS (National Institutes of Technology 
and Standards), formerly the NBS, and they referred me to 
the following outfit:

Transaction Publishing Inc.
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
201-931-2280

Z39.50 is available and costs $35.

It seems that the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) writes
the standards for this stuff, but relies on another organization to publish
it.  I guess the government printing office is too slow :-)?
-- 
Richard M. Stein (aka Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Office of Research Computing @ The Ohio Supercomputer Center
Ghettoblaster vacuum cleaner architect and Trollius semi-guru
Internet: stein@pixelpump.osc.edu