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- From: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Subject: Re: wanted: X protocol in ASN.1
- References: <5362@dove.nist.gov>
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- Sender: news@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 09:42:29 GMT
- Keywords: ASN.1 X
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- bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov (Bob &) writes:
-
- >Has someone defined the X protocol in ASN.1? Does anyone have a
- >point-of-contact for the OSI group working on integrating X as an OSI
- >application protocol? Thanks.
-
- You might be interessted in the following article:
-
- Rita Brennan, Kevin Thompson, Rick Wilder: Mapping the X Window onto
- OSI Standards, IEEE Network Magazine, May 1991.
-
- It describes the work of ANSI commitee X3H3.6 and ISO JTC/SC21&SC24
- on this. The X Protocol is above ACSE and presentation in this proposal.
- It is not ASN.1/BER encoded. They use the normal X bitstream as the
- presentation syntax. Nothing prevents you from using other presentation
- syntaxes then ASN.1/BER in OSI. That's why there is a presentation
- syntax negogiation in the presentation layer.
-
- Markus
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