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- From: "Lyman Chapin" <lyman@BBN.COM>
- Subject: [ lyman: CLNP ECHO (was OSI PING) ]
- To: hagens@cs.wisc.edu, mwatford@bnr.ca, x3s33@merit.edu
- Date: Wed, 27 May 92 15:25:11 EDT
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- Rob and others,
-
- Here's the official status of the ISO counterpart to RFC 1139.
-
- - Lyman
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- From: "Lyman Chapin" <lyman@BBN.COM>
- Subject: CLNP ECHO (was OSI PING)
- To: iab@ISI.EDU, iesg@ISI.EDU
- Date: Tue, 26 May 92 20:18:03 EDT
-
- The status of "ping" for CLNP (which ANSI and ISO call "echo") is:
-
- - first brought to ISO (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6) by ANSI (X3S3.3) in
- June 1991 (after Rob Hagens pointed out to me that the very
- useful "ping" facility of IP was missing from CLNP);
-
- - ISO initiated a new project to standardize an amendment to
- CLNP (ISO 8473) defining "CLNP ECHO";
-
- - the new project proposal was circulated last fall for ballot
- (all ISO new projects have to be approved by the member countries
- of the sponsoring technical committee, in this case JTC1); the
- ballot closed early this year with unanimous approval to proceed
- and unanimous approval of the project editor (yours truly);
-
- - the ANSI-submitted draft of the amendment for CLNP ECHO was
- circulated for comment at the same time as the new project
- ballot, as document SC6/N6849 (the amendment is based on the
- CLNP PING spec contained in RFC <whatever the number is>, since
- the intention was simply to take work that had already been
- done in the IETF and run it through the ISO process so that
- we would have an "official" amendment to the base protocol
- standard for PING);
-
- - so far, no comments have been received on the draft (except for
- a comment from the US that says "we still like the text we showed
- you last June");
-
- - at the next SC6 meeting (in July, in San Diego), I expect the
- ANSI-sponsored draft to be registered as a Proposed Draft
- Amendment (PDAM) to ISO 8473, and to be circulated after the
- meeting for a three-month letter ballot;
-
- - since no one appears to object to the idea of adding PING to
- CLNP, there is no reason to expect that the PDAM ballot will
- fail - so around November 1992, I should be able to close the
- PDAM ballot and start the final (DAM) ballot, which is a
- six-month ballot;
-
- - following the close of the DAM ballot (in late spring of 1993),
- we should see an "official" CLNP ECHO spec published.
-
- Sounds like I should ascii-fy the CLNP ECHO spec and ask Jon to
- publish it as an informational RFC. The question then is whether
- the current RFC, or the (eventual) ISO standard, should be the
- Internet Standard.
-
- - Lyman
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