ISO Development Environment
The ISODE software (pronounced eye-soo-dee-eee), more formally the ISO Development Environment, was an implementation of the
The ISODE software was initially a public domain / open source implementation, led by Marshall Rose. Following version 6.0, Marshall handed the lead over to Colin Robbins and Julian Onions, who coordinated the 7.0 and 8.0 releases. Version 8.0 was the final public domain release, made on June 19, 1992. The Open Source version is still available,[1] even if only for historic interest. The software was ported to a wide set of Unix and Linux variants.[2]
ISODE Stack
The ISODE stack[3] was an implementation of layers 3 to 6 of the
Applications
The ISODE Stack was the basis for a number of
PP
ISODE formed the basis an implementation for the
gateway. PP also implemented a P7 Messagestore (PPMS).PP was designed by Steve Kille and the lead engineer was Julian Onions.
Quipu
ISODE had a full
QUIPU was designed by Kille and the lead engineer was Robbins, largely funded by the INCA project,[8] and used extensively in the Paradise academic X.500 directory pilot.
FTAM
ISODE contained and implementation of
VT
ISODE contained a virtual terminal (VT)[10] implementation and a VT-Telnet gateway.
OSISEC
ISODE has a full implementation of a PKI Certificate Authority built on top of it by the OSISEC[11][12] project. OSISEC was developed by Mike Roe & Peter Williams and integrated into ISODE by Robbins.
OSIMIS
ISODE has a full implementation of a CMIP/TMN built on top of it by the OSIMIS[13] project.
Contributors
The following people or groups were listed in the ISODE 8.0 manual[14] as the significant contributors
- The MITRE Corporation
- The Northrop Corporation
- NYSERNet, Inc.
- Performance Systems International, Inc.
- University College London
- The University of Nottingham
- X-Tel Services Ltd (now Nexor)
- The Wollongong Group, Inc.
- Marshall T. Rose
- Colin J. Robbins
- Julian P. Onions
Commercialisation
Several companies used the ISODE software to build successful commercial products and services including (alphabetical order):
- Control Data Corporation used Quipu as the basis of their X.500 product.
- Nexor's email and directory and products are evolutions of PP and Quipu.
- X-Tel Services offered commercial support contracts for the software to the academic community, including JANET and SURFnet.
References
- ^ "Download Isode 8.0.5 Software".
- ^ "ISODE Ports". FUNET. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ ISODE; Marshall Rose; Julian Onions; Colin Robbins; Steve Kille (1992). "The ISO Development Environment: User's Manual (Version 7.0)".
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(help) - ^ "RFC1006". IETF.
- ^ "The PP Manual".
- ^ "RFC 2156". IETF. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ ISODE; Colin Robbins; Steve Kille (1992). "The ISO Development Environment: User's Manual (Version 7.0)". 5: QUIPU.
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(help) - ^ "Integrated Network Architecture for Office Communications". CORDIS. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "RFC 1415". IETF. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ "ISO 9040 - Virtual Terminal". ISO. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ OSISEC; Michael Roe; Steve Kille (1992). "The OSI Security Package: OSISEC User's Manual". 1: X.509 Authentication Framework.
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(help) - ^ OSISEC; Michael Roe; Steve Kille (1992). "The OSI Security Package: OSISEC User's Manual". 2: Secure OSI Applications.
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(help) - ^ "OSIMIS - OSI Management Information Service". UCL. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "ISODE 8 manual". Archived from the original on 2014-12-17.
Footnotes
- ^ PP does not stand for anything. It was a project joke that it did not stand for "Postman Pat", while "Postman Pat" is a good description of the software, it would have created copyright issues to have used this name.