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2 total messages Started by Markus Kuhn Wed, 07 Oct 1992 15:48

#900

Author: Markus Kuhn
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 15:48

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Does anyone know the current status of

  ISO 10162     Bibliographic Search, Retrieval and Update Service
  ISO 10163     Bibliographic Search, Retrieval and Update Protocol

and the technical contents of these standards? Is this the new version of the
WAIS protocol (Z??.?? Sorry, I forgot the numbers)?

I want to include a short description of every layer 7 protocol in the FAQ
and I don't know anything about this standard. Is ISO SR the common
abbreviation for it?

And what do you know about ISO 10160/10161, the 'Interlibrary Loan
Service Definition/Protocol Specification'? Status?

Markus

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Re: OSI Information Retrieval Protocol

#901

Author: Simon Edward Spero
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 13:47

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In article <BvrD9G.KpL@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
   Does anyone know the current status of

     ISO 10162     Bibliographic Search, Retrieval and Update Service
     ISO 10163     Bibliographic Search, Retrieval and Update Protocol

   and the technical contents of these standards? Is this the new version of the
   WAIS protocol (Z??.?? Sorry, I forgot the numbers)?

I'm not sure if the new version of SR has been balloted or not; SR is the
international version of NISO Z39.50/1992, possibly with a few minor 
differences (they are supposed to be interoperable, but there might be 
a little bit of overshoot). 

Apart from one project in Scandanavia, I thing that everybody is coding to 
Z39.50, not SR, so this is somewhat moot; the standard profile for running 
Z39.50 over TCP/IP is to discard the presentation and session layers, and 
transmit BER encoded PDUs over IP directly.

Z39.50 allows a client to search for and retrieve documents in a variety of
formats; originally intended to be used just to access library catalogs, it
now handles any kind of data, including full text and multi-media. 

The 1988 version of the protocol was used as the basis for WAIS, and has 
become one of the most widely installed (the most widely installed?) OSI
application layer protocols.


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