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- .ds Rh P1224: X.400 API
- .ds Au Steve Trus <trus@osi.ncsl.nist.gov>
- .ds Dt July 8-12, 1991
- .ds Lo Santa Clara, CA
- .ds Ed Stephen R. Walli <stephe@usenix.org>
- .ds Wd U\s-3SENIX\s0 Standards Watchdog Committee
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- .tm Subject: Standards Update, \*(Rh
- .tm From: \*(Ed
- .tm Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net
- .tm Organization: \*(Wd
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- .AF "\*(Ed, Report Editor"
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- \fB\*(Au\fP reports on \*(Su
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- .HU "Summary"
- .P
- \s-1P1224\s0 is producing two documents for standardization
- \(em the \s-1X.400\s0 \s-1API\s0
- and the X/Open Object Management \s-1API\s0 (\s-1XOM\s0).
- At Santa Clara, the group continued work on the modifications
- required to the base documents.
- Specifically the group:
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- .LI
- reviewed the first draft of the
- Object Management \s-1API\s0,
- .LI
- worked on test methods,
- .LI
- worked on \s-1IEEE\s0
- balloting plans for \s-1P1224\s0.
- .LE
- .P
- The \s-1IEEE\s0 Standards Board has approved the Project Authorization Requests
- (\s-1PAR\s0s)
- for \s-1P1224\s0
- (\s-1OSI\s0 Object Management \s-1API\s0)
- and \s-1P1224.1\s0
- (\s-1X.400\s0 \s-1API\s0).
- .P
- .HU "Report"
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- The Santa Clara meeting was generally productive for
- the \s-1P1224\s0 working group,
- and we
- are well under way to producing our draft documents for standardization.
- Progress wasn't what it could have been due to minimal participation
- by the
- \s-1X.400\s0 \s-1API\s0 Association.
- .P
- .HU "Review of Object Management Draft"
- .P
- The first draft of the Object Management \s-1API\s0 was distributed to the
- \s-1P1224\s0 working group before the meeting.
- The group spent much of the
- week reviewing the \s-1API\s0.
- The \s-1POSIX.17\s0 (Directory Services) group joined the
- review for one day.
- Numerous changes were made to the document.
- When the
- changes have been incorporated into
- the document,
- it will again be sent out
- in the \s-1P1224\s0 mailing.
- .P
- .HU "Test Methods"
- .P
- Tony Cincotta,
- a test methods expert from \s-1NIST\s0,
- spent much of the week
- reviewing the Object Management draft
- and
- test methods already developed.
- Tony
- provided many suggestions for improving the test methods developed thus far.
- .P
- It has become apparent that the development effort required to build
- test
- methods for the \s-1X.400\s0
- and
- Object Management \s-1API\s0s could delay the completion of
- balloting of the \s-1API\s0s for years.
- To resolve this problem \s-1X/O\s0pen is considering
- funding a contractor to develop the test methods for these documents.
- This
- issue should be resolved by the next meeting.
- Additionally,
- Tony recommended
- that he train the \s-1X/O\s0pen contractor for the development
- of the test methods
- section of the documents.
- .P
- .HU "Balloting Plans"
- .P
- Our current plans are to ballot the Object Management
- \s-1API\s0 after the October meeting,
- and to ballot the \s-1X.400\s0 \s-1API\s0 after the January
- meeting.
- These ballots would not include the test methods;
- Balloting cannot
- complete until the test methods are complete.
- .P
- Currently we are developing the
- list of people who will be invited to ballot these documents.
- This list
- includes members of the \s-1IEEE\s0 \s-1TCOS\s0,
- the \s-1X.400\s0 \s-1API\s0 Association,
- and \s-1X/O\s0pen
- Limited.
- Invitations to join the balloting group will be sent out at the end of
- August
- by the \s-1IEEE\s0.
- To be included in the balloting group,
- a person must
- return the invitation to the \s-1IEEE\s0 by October 10,
- 1991.
- .P
- Iain Devine,
- the \s-1P1224\s0
- technical editor will be the ballot resolution reviewer,
- assisted in technical
- matters by Enzo Signore.
- .P
- .HU "In Closing"
- .P
- \s-1P1224\s0 continues to make good progress.
- The primary focus of the Parsippany meeting will be to
- continue the review of our draft documents,
- work on our
- test methods,
- and prepare for balloting.
-