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- From: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Subject: Referenced Data Transfer
- References: <9207271452.AA25947@nuri.inria.fr>
- Message-ID: <Bs23vw.28n@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:45:31 GMT
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- Peter.Sylvester@inria.fr writes:
-
- >> I vaguely remember hearing that X.400(92) would include some kind of
- >> standard for exchanging news between different systems. Has this been
- >> dropped or have I received false information from the beginning ?
-
- There is a X.gc (gc=group communication) standard in preparation, but
- as far as I know it won't be ready for X.400(92). Perhaps 1995???
- The technical details are quite fascinating and provide for a much more
- comfortable service than e.g. USENET.
-
- >X.400 is still a standard for e-mail, i.e. asynchronous transfer of data.
- >These data may be simple text, or have structures like 'an ftam like encoded
- >file'. It is not an application for news unless .....
-
- >.... where did I read something about not transfering a document but just
- >a reference to it?
-
- ISO DIS 10031-2 Distributed Office Applications, Part 2: Referenced
- Data Transfer
-
- ? DFR (which will also be used by X.gc according to recent drafts) allows
- similar systems.
-
- But what has NEWS to do with transporting only references?
-
- Markus
-
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- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany
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