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- From: tomw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Tom Worthington)
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- Subject: Government Open Systems Document for Comment
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:23:40 -0800
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
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- Keywords: POSIX, AAP, NIST, COSE, GOSIP, XPG, OSI, Open Systems
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- Submitted-by: tomw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Tom Worthington)
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- COMMONWEALTH OPEN SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT PROFILE (COSE)
-
- Following the Commonwealth Government's commitment, made in the March 1991
- Industry Statement, to move to open systems the Information Exchange
- Steering Committee (IESC) has been working on the development of an Open
- Systems Environment Profile for use by agencies in establishing a more
- open environment in government computing.
-
- The IESC's Open Systems Subcommittee (OSSC) has prepared a draft COSE, a
- copy of which is attached for your information [see note below]. The COSE
- profile utilises the Application Portability Profile (AAP) developed by
- the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the US
- Department of Commerce. The draft has been compiled in consultation with a
- number of Commonwealth agencies represented on the OSSC and industry
- through the Australian Information Industries Association (AIIA).
-
- The draft specification is issued for comment and we would welcome your
- assistance in reviewing this document and providing any comments, by close
- of business February 12 1993, direct to the COSE Project Manager Ms Ann
- Whitehead, ITSG, Department of Finance, Newlands Street, Parkes, ACT 2600
- and who can be contacted on ph 06 263 3552 or fax 06 263 2276 [see e-mail
- address below].
-
- The IESC is also formulating more specific guidance on the implementation
- of the Open Systems Environment Profile for all Commonwealth Departments
- and Agencies. It is planned that, following the receipt of comments, and
- amendments to the draft, the official launch of COSE will take place on 29
- March 1993 at an IESC sponsored seminar in Canberra.
-
- Allan Maclean
- Chairman
- IESC Open Systems Subcommittee
- 18 December 1992
-
- DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, Newlands Street, Parkes, A.C.T. 2600, Australia
- Telephone: Canberra (06) 263 2222, Telex: 62639, Fax: (06) 273 3021
-
- X.400: g=Ann;s=Whitehead;o=Finance;p=ausgovfinance;a=Telememo;c=au
- Internet E-mail: Ann.Whitehead@finance.ausgovfinance.telememo.au
-
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- Posted with permission from the IESC, as a community service by:
- Tom Worthington, Director of the Community Affairs Board, Australian
- Computer Society Incorporated (e-mail: tomw@adfa.oz.au).
-
- NOTE: A text-only copy of the Draft COSE is available electronically, from
- the archive at archie.au in file /ACS/COSE-Draft via ftp and netfetch.
- Please direct queries and comments on the draft to the IESC at the
- Department of Finance.
-
- Standards trivia: Kim Fenley, the Defence Department's OSI expert,
- suggests that the acronym for the profile (COSE) should be pronounced
- "kozzi", as in the Australian slang for a swimming costume (cossie).
-
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 40
-