ISODE 4.0 announcement
Marshall Rose
mrose at twg.com
Sat Jul 16 11:24:40 AEST 1988
Appologies in advance for posting this to three lists, but I only send
this message out every 9 months or so...
/mtr
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A N N O U N C E M E N T
The next release of the "ISO Development Environment" will be
available on 24 July 1988. This release is called
ISODE 4.0
This software supports the development of certain kinds of ISO/CCITT/ECMA
protocols and applications. Here are the details:
- ISODE is not proprietary, but it is not in the public domain. This was
necessary to include a "hold harmless" clause in the release. The upshot
of all this is that anyone can get a copy of the release and do anything
they want with it, but no one takes any responsibility whatsoever for any
(mis)use.
- ISODE runs on native Berkeley (4.2, 4.3) and AT&T (SVR2, SVR3) systems,
in addition to various other UNIX-like operating systems. No kernel
modifications are required.
- Current modules include:
OSI transport service (TP0 on top of TCP, X.25, and CONS;
TP4 for SunLink OSI)
OSI session, presentation, and association control services
ASN.1 abstract syntax/transfer notation tools, including:
remote operations stub-generator (front-end for remote operations)
structure-generator (ASN.1 to C)
element-parser (basic encoding rules)
OSI reliable transfer and remote operations services
OSI DIS file transfer, access and management
- ISODE 4.0 consists of final "IS" level implementations with a few
exceptions. FTAM is still DIS, and ROSE and RTSE are current to the last
circulated drafts (March, 1988). ISODE also contains implementations of
the 1984 X.400 versions of ROS and RTS. ISODE is aligned with the U.S.
Government OSI Profile (GOSIP).
- Future modules planned for the next release include:
OSI message handling system
OSI directory
OSI virtual terminal ("telnet" class)
MHS/SMTP gateway
FTAM/FTP gateway
- Although the ISODE is not "supported" per se, it does have a problem
reporting address, Bug-ISODE at TWG.COM. Bug reports (and fixes) are welcome
by the way.
- The discussion group ISODE at SRI-NIC.ARPA is used as an open forum on ISODE.
Contact ISODE-Request at SRI-NIC.ARPA to be added to this list.
- The primary documentation for this release consists of a four volume
User's Manual (approx. 800 pages) and a set of UNIX manual pages. The
sources to the User's Manual are in LaTeX format. In addition, there are
a number of notes, papers, and presentations included in the documentation
set, again in either LaTeX or SLiTeX format.
- Although ISODE is an openly available implementation of the upper-layers of
OSI, it is primarily a development environment. As such, it contains many
tools and libraries to aid the development process. The most recent
addition is described in "The Applications Cookbook" which is Volume 4 of
the User's Manual. The Cookbook has several recipies for automating the
implementation of OSI applications which use remote operations. This
includes use of a stub-generator for remote operations macros, a structure-
generator to produce equivalent C structs for the ASN.1 type definitions
used by the application, and so on. Experience has shown that use of
these tools can drastically accelerate the process of building distributed
applications.
For more information, contact:
The Wollongong Group
Attn: Marshall T. Rose
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
+1-415-962-7100
There are several ways to get a distribution:
1. FTP
If you can FTP to the DARPA/NSF Internet, you can use anonymous FTP to
spam.istc.sri.com [10.2.0.107] and retrieve the file portal/isode-4.tar in
BINARY mode. This is a 9.25MB tar image. The file portal/isode-4.tar.Z
is the tar image after being run through the compress program (3MB).
2. NIFTP
If you run NIFTP over the public X.25 or over JANET, and are registered in
the NRS at Salford, you can use NIFTP with username "guest" and your own
name as password, to access UK.AC.UCL.CS to retrieve the file
<SRC>isode-4.tar. This is a 9.25MB tar image. The file <SRC>isode-4.tar.Z
is the tar image after being run through the compress program (3MB).
3. NORTH AMERICA
For mailings in NORTH AMERICA, send a check or purchase order for 350 US
Dollars to:
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
Moore School
Attn: David J. Farber (ISODE Distribution)
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6314
USA
+1-215-898-8560
The tape will be written in tar format at 1600bpi, and returned with a
documentation set. Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is
the same price.
4. EUROPE (tape and documentation)
For mailings in EUROPE, send a cheque or purchase order for 200 Pounds
Sterling to:
Department of Computer Science
Attn: Soren Sorensen
University College
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT
UK
+44-1-387-7050 x3680
Specify either (a) 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape, or (b) Sun 1/4-inch
cartridge tape. The tape will be written in tar format and returned
with a documentation set via DHL. Do not send tapes or envelopes.
Documentation only is the same price.
5. EUROPE (tape only)
Tapes without hardcopy documentation can be obtained via the European
UNIX User Group (EUUG). The ISODE 4.0 distribution is called EUUGD14.
EUUG Distributions
c/o Frank Kuiper
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
For information only:
Tel: +31-20-5924056 (or: +31-20-5929333)
Telex: 12571 mactr nl
Telefax: +31-20-5924199
Internet: euug-tapes at cwi.nl (euug-tapes at mcvax.uucp)
Specify one of:
- 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape: 90 Dutch Guilders
- 800bpi 1/2-inch tape: 120 Dutch Guilders
- Sun 1/4-inch cartridge tape (QIC-24 format): 150 Dutch Guilders
- 1/4-inch cartridge tape (QIC-11 format): 150 Dutch Guilders
If you require DHL this is possible and will be billed through. Note that
if you are not a member of EUUG, then there is an additional handling fee
of 300 Dutch Guilders (please enclose a copy of your membership or
contribution payment form when ordering). Do not send money, cheques,
tapes or envelopes, you will be invoiced. Tapes and invoice will be sent
separately.
6. AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
For mailings in AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND, send a cheque for 150 dollars
Australian to:
CSIRO DIT
Attn: George Michaelson
55 Barry St
Carlton, 3053
Australia
+61-3-347-8644
The tape will be written in tar format at 1600bpi, and returned with a
documentation set. Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is
the same price.
7. FTAM on the JANET or PSS
The sources are available by FTAM at UCL over X.25 using JANET
(00000511160013) or PSS (23421920030013) with TSEL "258" (ascii encoding).
Use the "anon" user-identity, supply any password, and retrieve the file
src/isode-4.tar. This is a 9.25MB tar image. The file src/isode-4.tar.Z
is the tar image after being run through the compress program (3MB).
8. FTAM on the DARPA/NSF Internet
The sources are available by FTAM at SRI over the DARPA/NSF Internet at
host spam.istc.sri.com [10.2.0.107] (TCP port 102 selects the OSI transport
service) with TSEL 258 (numeric encoding). Use the "anon" user-identity,
supply any password, and retrieve the file portal/isode-4.tar. This is a
9.25MB tar image. The file portal/isode-4.tar.Z is the tar image after
being run through the compress program (3MB).
For distributions via FTAM, the file service is provided by the FTAM
implementation in ISODE 4.0, which is a DIS implementation with a few
pieces of critical information taken from the IS. Note that although this
FTAM is a DIS implementation, the rest of the stack (i.e., association
control, presentation, and so on) is composed of an IS implementation.
If you wish to use the FTAM implementation in ISODE 3.0, which was a DIS
implementation both of FTAM and the rest of the stack, use TSEL 256 instead
(ascii encoding at UCL, and numeric encoding at SRI). This older service
is temporary and is provided for bootstrap purposes only.
For distributions via either FTAM or FTP, there is an additional file
available for retrieval, called isode-ps.tar.Z which is a compressed tar
image (2.75MB) containing the entire documentation set in PostScript
format.
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