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- Subject: Standards Update, P1224: X.400 API
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 14:35:34 -0700
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- USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
- Stephen R. Walli <stephe@usenix.org>, Report Editor
- P1224: X.400 API
-
-
- Steve Trus <trus@duke.ncsl.nist.gov> reports on the July 13-17, 1992
- meeting in Chicago, IL :
-
- Introduction
-
- The Chicago meeting was productive for the P1224 working group, and we
- are very near the completion of the standardization of the P1224 and
- P1224.1 documents.
-
- At the Chicago meeting the group:
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- - planned the next P1224 ballot resolution meeting,
-
- - reviewed the JTC1 recommendations for the International
- Standardization of the IEEE X.400, POSIX.17 Directory Services,
- and Object Management APIs,
-
- - planned future work for the P1224 group,
-
- - presented the status of the IEEE balloting of P1224,
-
- - presented the status of the IEEE balloting of P1224.1,
-
- - resolved the ballot objections and reviewed the ballot
- comments for the P1224 and P1224.1 documents, and
-
- - planed the recirculation of the P1224 and P1224.1
- documents.
-
- P1224 Next Ballot Resolution Meeting
-
- The group will not meet with the other TCOS groups at the October
- meeting in Utrecht, NL. We agreed to meet November 16-20 at NIST
- (Gaithersburg, MD).
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- International Standardization of the APIs
-
- JTC1 has recommended that the IEEE P1224 and P1003.17 working groups
- split each of the X.400, X.500 and Object Management API documents
- into four separate documents (Language Independent Specification, Test
- Methods for Language Independent Specification, C Language Binding, and
- Test Methods for C Language Binding). Additionally, JTC1 has
- recommended that the IEEE submit the X.400, X.500 and Object
- Management API documents to JTC1 for fast-track when they are approved
- IEEE standards, and that members of the P1224 and POSIX.17 working
- groups solicit international support for these IEEE standards in order
- to increase the likelyhood of a successful fast-track. The P1224 group
- agreed to follow these JTC1 recommendations.
-
- P1224 Working Group Status and Future Plans
-
- The first recirculation of the P1224 document began on May 20 and it
- ended on June 19. The balloting pool consists of 73 members. The
- balloting for the P1224 document closed with 81% of the ballots
- returned and 78% of the eligible voters approved the document.
-
- Plans for standardizing future X.400 related APIs were discussed. The
- X.400 API Association and X/Open will have stable base documents for a
- P7 and an EDI API by the end of 1992. Tentatively, we would like to
- begin converting these documents into IEEE standards at the January
- 1993 meeting.
-
- P1224.1 Balloting Status
-
- The P1224.1 balloting period began May 6 and it ended June 5. The
- balloting pool consists of 50 members. The balloting for the P1224.1
- document closed with 77% of the ballots returned and 82% of the
- eligible voters approved the document.
-
- P1224 and P1224.1 Ballot Resolution and Recirculation
-
- The group spent three days resolving the ballot objections and
- reviewing the ballot comments for the P1224 and P1224.1 documents.
- The technical editor will incorporate the changes into the document.
-
- A 10 day recirculation of the P1224 document was scheduled to begin
- October 4 and end October 14. A 30 day recirculation of the P1224
- document was scheduled to begin October 10 and end November 9.
-
- Summary
-
- The progress of the P1224 working group is very good. We hope to have
- the P1224 and P1224.1 standards complete early 1993. The primary
- function of the November meeting will be P1224 and P1224.1 ballot
- resolution.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 27
-