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Re: Canada's ISO standards body?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Fri Mar 29 13:32:32 1996

Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:36:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9603281502.A24841-0100000@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca>

On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca wrote:

> Speaking of which, could someone tell me who Canada's standards body and 
> rep to the ISO is (and if that's where I've gotta go to get my hands on X.509
> and all those other X.docs.). Any addresses would be helpful too.

Try www.itu.org (X. series docs come from the ITU, not ISO. Same text 
though).

I don't think v3 has been balloted yet - that gives you a chance to 
explore one of the more amusing twists of OSI standardisation- you can 
get copies for free of most drafts from the editor right up until it gets 
standardised. Silly, isn't it. 

Simon

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