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- Minimal OSI Upper-Layers (thinosi)
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- Charter
- Last Modified: 26-Oct-94
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- Current Status: Concluded Working Group
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- Chair(s):
- Peter Furniss <p.furniss@ulcc.ac.uk>
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- Transport Area Director(s):
- Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
- Allyn Romanow <allyn.romanow@eng.sun.com>
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- Transport Area Advisor:
- Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
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- Mailing Lists:
- General Discussion:thinosi@ulcc.ac.uk
- To Subscribe: thinosi-request@ulcc.ac.uk
- Archive: pluto.ulcc.ac.uk:/ulcc/thinosi/thinosi-mail-archive.txt
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- Description of Working Group:
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- The OSI upper-layer protocols (above transport) are rich in function
- and specified in large, complex and numerous documents. However, in
- supporting a particular application, the protocol actually used is only
- a subset of the whole. An implementation is not required to support
- features it never uses, and it is, or should be, possible to have
- relatively lightweight implementations specialized for a particular
- application or group of applications with similar requirements. The
- application protocol could be an OSI application layer standard or a
- protocol originally defined for TCP/IP or other environment. It will be
- easier to produce such implementations if the necessary protocol is
- described concisely in a single document.
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- An implementation, of the mapping of X Window System protocol over OSI upper-layers, is based on this principle.
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- The working group is chartered to produce two documents:
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- ``Skinny bits for byte-stream'': a specification of the bit
- sequences that implement the OSI upper-layer protocols (session,
- presentation and ACSE) as needed to support an application that
- requires simple connection, and byte-stream read and write. This will
- be based on the octet sequences needed to support X. This will not be
- expected to be provide a full equivalent of TCP, nor to cover specific
- standardized protocols.
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- ``Skinny bits for Directory'': a specification of the bit sequences
- needed for the Directory Access Protocol - in the same style as the
- byte-stream specification, but to include DAP. The level of functionality
- of this is to be determined.
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- An important aspect of the group's work is to find out if it is possible
- to produce useful and concise specifications of this kind. A minor part
- is to think of better names.
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- The group will also encourage the deployment of X/OSI implementations
- and interworking experiments with it.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- May 93 Post an Internet-Draft for ``Skinny bits for Byte-Stream.''
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- Aug 93 Post an Internet-Draft for ``Skinny Bits for Directory.''
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- Dec 93 Submit the ``Skinny Bits for Byte-Stream'' specification to the
- IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
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- Mar 94 Submit the ``Skinny Bits for Directory'' specification to the
- IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
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- Internet-Drafts:
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- No Current Internet-Drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1698 Oct 94 Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to Support Basic
- Communications Applications
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