Message-Id: <9409231312.AA17131@plato.ansa.co.uk>
To: "Norbert Leser - OSF DCE: (617)621-8715" <nl@osf.org>
Subject: Re: Last Call: URL to Proposed and URN- and IRL-Reqs to Informational
In-Reply-To: Message from nl@osf.org of Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:35:31 -0400.
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 14:12:37 BST
From: Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk>
"Norbert Leser - OSF DCE: (617)621-8715" <nl@osf.org> writes:
> First of all, I want to make clear that neither I nor the members of the team
> that was responsible for developing the XFN spec are directly associated with
> X/Open. We have developed this specification in agreement with but externally
> of X/Open. Thus, we cannot make the spec directly available to you, you must
> request it from X/Open (contact info is below).
Involvement of X/Open does not necessarily prevent documents from being
available free and online. The CORBA specification is a joint publication of
X/Open and OMG, and is available from the OMG mail server <server@omg.org>.
May I also point out that the ISO/IEC/ITU-T joint work on the Reference Model
for Open Distributed Processing has been in progress for a long time now, and
naming is one of the issues in that work. The parts (2 and 3) that have
reached Draft International Standard (and ITU-T equivalent) status do not say
much about naming, but there is already an implied naming model in the way
other thing are done. The current documents are available from ftp.dstc.edu.au
(I can't give a more explicit URL because it seems to be broken at the
moment!).
In my opinion, the proposed Informational RFC is compatible enough with the
RM-ODP work for a delay to be unhelpful.
Regards,
Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk>
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