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TYPE: [SPECIFICATION] ISO Model
DESCRIPTION: In the late 1970s, two projects began independently, with the same goal: to define a unifying standard for the architecture of networking systems. One was administered by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), while the other was undertaken by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, or CCITT (the abbreviation is from the French version of the name). These two international standards bodies each developed a document that defined similar networking models. In 1983, these two documents were merged together to form a standard called The Basic Reference Model for Open Systems Interconnection. That's a mouthful, so the standard is usually referred to as the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model, the OSI Reference Model, or even just the OSI Model. It was published in 1984 by both the ISO, as standard ISO 7498, and the renamed CCITT (now called the Telecommunications Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union or ITU-T) as standard X.200. The OSI Reference Model was intended to serve as the foundation for the establishment of a widely-adopted suite of protocols that would be used by international internetworks—basically, what the Internet became. This was called, unsurprisingly, the OSI Protocol Suite. Popularity of the Internet and its TCP/IP protocols met the OSI suite head on, and TCP/IP won. Some of the OSI protocols were implemented, but as a whole, the OSI protocols lost out to TCP/IP when the Internet started to grow. The OSI model itself, however, found a home as a device for explaining the operation of not just the OSI protocols, but networking in general terms.
PARTICIPANTS: (insert names here)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [COMPANY] MaXware?, Inc.
DESCRIPTION: MaXware? delivers vendor neutral Identity Management solutions using customers existing infrastructure.
PARTICIPANTS: Tore Wold, President & CEO (insert names here)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: MaXware Virtual Directory enables a single user log-on for multi-server searches of LDAP directories, ODBC databases, ActiveX COM objects and proprietary data formats from standard LDAP clients and applications.

TYPE: [SPECIFICATION] X.400
DESCRIPTION: The X.400 specifications were first published by ITU-T (then CCITT) in 1984, and were substantially revised in 1988. The X.400 architecture originated from IFIP WG 6.5, on International Computer Messaging, and was intended to be able to handle store-and-forward electronic mail, with interfaces into telex, fax, teletex and postal mail. In X.400 terminology, a User Agent (UA) is the email client which someone uses to generate a message and submit it to a Message Transfer Agent (MTA), which passes the message to other MTAs until the message reaches the destination user, or until it is converted to a service outside of X.400, such as being reformatted into a telex, fax, or is printed out and delivered via a postal service. Compared to Internet mail, the X.400 design enforces more of a logical separation between the envelope, which contains the fields manipulated by the MTAs, and the content of the message. The original content forms were named P2 and P22, and represent a business memo. These forms of content consist of a header, resembling a cover sheet on a memo, and one or more body parts. Each body part could be text or an image, such as a fax. (See Also: "Origin of Directory Naming Attributes" http://www.ldap.com/1/x400schema.shtml )
PARTICIPANTS: (insert names here)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: X.400

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