Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!purdue!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ncrwic!jmatrow From: jmatrow@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (John Matrow) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Remote Database Access Protocol? Message-ID: <5104@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 27 Apr 89 12:53:54 GMT References: <7928@fluke.COM> <23651@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jmatrow@ncrwic.UUCP (John Matrow) Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas Lines: 31 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. Is NISO new? >It bills itself as a "Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol >Specification for Library Applications". >The standard is available from: >National Bureau of Standards Hasn't this been renamed? The Spring, 1989 issue of CONNECT: The Journal of Computer Networking, published by 3COM, has an article "The Paths of Communication" by Rick Villers. In it, he says "No company or group has yet completely addressed all the complexities involved in ensuring [distributed database] security, compatibility and concurrence. The most promising approach to solving these issues, a group of proposed ISO standards concerning remote database access (RDA) and transaction processing (TP), seeks to establish standard distributed database services. ... The most optimistic projections for their completion call for initial standards no earlier than 1993". -- John Matrow Information Systems & Services, NCR E&M Wichita NCR:654-8851 (316)636-8851 "Call 303/499-7111 for a good time!"