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From: "Lyman Chapin" <lyman@BBN.COM>
Subject: [ lyman: CLNP ECHO (was OSI PING) ]
To: hagens@cs.wisc.edu, mwatford@bnr.ca, x3s33@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 27 May 92 15:25:11 EDT
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Rob and others,
Here's the official status of the ISO counterpart to RFC 1139.
- Lyman
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From: "Lyman Chapin" <lyman@BBN.COM>
Subject: CLNP ECHO (was OSI PING)
To: iab@ISI.EDU, iesg@ISI.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 May 92 20:18:03 EDT
The status of "ping" for CLNP (which ANSI and ISO call "echo") is:
- first brought to ISO (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6) by ANSI (X3S3.3) in
June 1991 (after Rob Hagens pointed out to me that the very
useful "ping" facility of IP was missing from CLNP);
- ISO initiated a new project to standardize an amendment to
CLNP (ISO 8473) defining "CLNP ECHO";
- the new project proposal was circulated last fall for ballot
(all ISO new projects have to be approved by the member countries
of the sponsoring technical committee, in this case JTC1); the
ballot closed early this year with unanimous approval to proceed
and unanimous approval of the project editor (yours truly);
- the ANSI-submitted draft of the amendment for CLNP ECHO was
circulated for comment at the same time as the new project
ballot, as document SC6/N6849 (the amendment is based on the
CLNP PING spec contained in RFC <whatever the number is>, since
the intention was simply to take work that had already been
done in the IETF and run it through the ISO process so that
we would have an "official" amendment to the base protocol
standard for PING);
- so far, no comments have been received on the draft (except for
a comment from the US that says "we still like the text we showed
you last June");
- at the next SC6 meeting (in July, in San Diego), I expect the
ANSI-sponsored draft to be registered as a Proposed Draft
Amendment (PDAM) to ISO 8473, and to be circulated after the
meeting for a three-month letter ballot;
- since no one appears to object to the idea of adding PING to
CLNP, there is no reason to expect that the PDAM ballot will
fail - so around November 1992, I should be able to close the
PDAM ballot and start the final (DAM) ballot, which is a
six-month ballot;
- following the close of the DAM ballot (in late spring of 1993),
we should see an "official" CLNP ECHO spec published.
Sounds like I should ascii-fy the CLNP ECHO spec and ask Jon to
publish it as an informational RFC. The question then is whether
the current RFC, or the (eventual) ISO standard, should be the
Internet Standard.
- Lyman
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