Re: Potential lead for MHS management "MHS Routing Framework" by Cristian Constantinof

[Alf Hansen <[e-mail]>]

Paul,

> Stef et al,
> 
>         Could someone please provide me some background as to what
> X.400 management information definition work is going on in the IETF
> When did it start? Who is leading and supporting this work? What are
> the goals and schedules of this work
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul

For your information I am enclosing the current charter for the IETF X.400 
OPS WG. Please note that this charter will be revised shortly.

In Europe this work is supported by the EUREKA project: COSINE MHS, and
the paricipating national networks. In the U.S. the work is supported by
NSF (The Internet X.400 Project) and the participating agencies.

Best regards,
Alf H
IETF X.400 OPS Co-chair

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                                Charter

                          OSI Integration Area

                      X.400 Operations Working Group

Co-chairs:

        Alf Hansen, [e-mail]
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        Robert Hagens, <[e-mail]>
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Mailing Lists:

        [e-mail]
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        [e-mail]
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Description of Working Group:

        X.400 management domains are being deployed today on the Internet. 
        There is a need for coordination of the various efforts to insure that
        they can interoperate and collectively provide an Internet-wide X.400
        message transfer service connected to the existing Internet mail
        service.

        The work in this WG is closely related to work in 

             IETF-OSI-MHS-DS  and
             RARE WG-MSG
 
        These WGs cover additional aspects of X.400 Service Integration.
        

Goals and Milestones:

        The overall goal of this group is to insure interoperability between
        Internet X.400 management domains and to the existing Internet mail
        service. The specific task of this group is to produce and monitor
        the new documents needed for such interoperation. The following 
        documents are identified for this WG:

        OPS-1: "Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains in the 
               GO-MHS Community".

        OPS-2: "Using the Internet DNS to maintain RFC987/RFC1148 
               Address Mapping Tables and X.400 Routing Informations"

        OPS-3: "Routing coordination for X.400 MHS services within a 
               multi protocol / multi network environment".

        OPS-4: "Mapping between X.400(1984/1988) and Mail-11 (DECnet mail)"

        OPS-5: "X.400 use of extended character sets"

        OPS-6: "Address mapping table update procedures"


        The tentative timetable for this group is

        Feb    1991: Initial meeting, produce internal outline of OPS-1.
        Aug    1991: Working draft OPS-1, circulate to interested people.
        Spring 1992: Internet draft available of OPS-1. Identify and
                     work on new documents.
        Summer 1992: OPS-1 ready for publication.
        Autumn 1992/
        Spring 1993: Monitor and work on the other documents, and 
                     identify new ones.