[53195] in Cypherpunks
Re: Canada's ISO standards body?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Wed Apr 3 12:28:48 1996
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 11:50:41 -6
Reply-To: trei@process.com
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu wrote:
>
> 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).
While the International Triathlon Union may be a standards body in it's own field,
it has shockingly little influence on the X series of communications standards. You
might try the International Telecommunications Union, at www.itu.ch.
> 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.
Haven't located it yet.
> Simon
Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com
