Agenda and paper for the OSI-ODA meeting at the Boston IETF
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The fifth Meeting of the ODA Working Group, in the OSI Area, will be held under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, on Wednesday July 16 from 9.00-12.00. A preliminary Agenda for that meeting is given below. A progress report by the Chair is appended. PROPOSED AGENDA 1. Introduction of Participants 2. Review of Documentation available 3. Review of progress on IETF-ODA Pilots 4. Consideration of current status of standardisation - the impact of FOD-26 and of extensions. 5. Review of the status of possible products 6. Use of MIME 7. The interest in security services 8. Review of possible programme and timetable 10. Proposed further actions 12. Arrangements for future Meetings RECENT PROGRESS PROGRESS ON ODA CONVERTORS AS REPORTED BY P.T.KIRSTEIN TO THE IETF MEETING, BOSTON, JULY 10,1992 The latest document defining the current status is [1] below. It is available on the info-server. It gives details about the current implementations available for the Pilot. These are listed below: PRODUCT Supplier Status Product Available Source SLATE/ODA V1.2 BBN/UCL OK Slate-yes Now UCL SLATE/ODA V2 BBN/UCL Development Slate-Beta Q4 1992 UCL Word-for-Windows/ODA v3 Bull OK Yes Now Bull DECWRITE/ODA DEC OK Yes Now DEC Global View Xerox Testing Yes Now Xerox MacODA Apple Testing Beta ?? Apple WordPerfect UPC Development Future Q4 1992 UPC? TABLE 1. The Known availability of ODA implementationa, 7/92 (Note in the above the Column "testing" denotes that UCL is still testing interoperability with other implementations. After such testing, they discuss the results with the supplier) UCL has continued shipping SLATE/ODA v1.2. BBN has sent UCL a beta release of V2 of SLATE; UCL now expects SLATE/ODA v2 to be ready for shipping ODA attached to that version only during Q4 1992. The Bull product has been released for shipping; UCL has tested it for conformity. The DEC product is available now, and has been tested for conformity. The Xerox and Apple products, have been delivered to UCL; all are available commercially, but are still being tested for interoperability by UCL. At the last meeting, the Chair stated that it was unlikely that a WORDPERFECT/ODA system from University Politechnic of Catalonia would become available. This situation has changed. A new version of the previous system has been sent to UCL; it has had many of its problems resolved. However, that version includes some software from ICL - which UPC had not had permission to release for the Pilot. UPC has reiterated that it expects to ship to UCL some software based entirely on their work; UCL expects to receive it in September. Thus UCL expect it should be ready for release to the IETF during the fourth quarter of 1992. Following the last meeting, the Chair has initiated a discussion on the question of National character sets with Bull - who plan to provide such support in a later version; information on this point is still not available to UCL on the Apple, DEC or Xerox implementations. So far, most use of the systems were using X.400 for transport. Interest has been expressed in working with the Multi-media Mail format (MIME); UCL is developing a MIME channel for PP, which should be available by the beginning of Q4 1992. The channel can send any binary data, so that it can send ODA messages, which are a recognised Content Type in MIME. A version of securing complete ODA documents has been prepared by UCL for work with SLATE. Beta test versions of this system, which requires OSISEC and SLATE v1.2, should be available by the beginning of Q4 1992. UCL has not decided whether that version should be released more widely, or whether only a version based on SLATE v2 should be prepared first. There are some differences in concept between OSISEC and the Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM); though differences in certificate structures are being resolved. The differences may lead to some strategic decisions on whether the group would wish to Pilot the secured ODA. Reference 1. D. Sadok et al: The ODA Document Convertors, UCL Internal Report No 2, Version 4, July 1992.