[ih] X.500 document history (Re: NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration)

[John Day]

What you say about the US OSI group and the Internet group was true 
for the Network Layer work and may have been true for the X.500/X.400 
work.  I was wondering about that.

However, for the Transport and above work this was not the case at 
all.  There were very few people in SC16.21 with Internet experience.

The connectionless network layer group in OSI was almost entirely 
Internet people.


At 9:42 -0500 2011/02/18, Craig Partridge wrote:
>  > > The first "operational" X.500 RFC was RFC 1218, "Naming scheme for c=US",
>>  > dated April 1991, but it's also referred to in Karen Sollins' "A Plan for
>>  > Internet Directory Services", July 1989.
>>  >
>>
>>  Interesting. There is a draft of an unpublished paper written by Sollins in
>>  Jan 1983 -- titled "Naming, Conversations, and Federation" -- that is in the
>>  NIC collection (I've been informed that this went on to be included in her
>>  dissertation). Its very presence in that collection probably means that
>>  someone at the NIC was familiar with these kinds of ideas at the time,
>>  possibly Jake Feinler or others that went on to do IFIP work.
>
>Side note -- you should generally assume *everyone* in the Internet
>community was familiar with *everyone* else in the Internet community and
>the US OSI representation team (which was heavily ex-ARPANET types)
>until about 1986, if not later.  It was a very small world -- I joined
>in 1983 and knew most folks by reputation if not by face by 1985 and
>I was fresh out of college in 1983...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Craig