Open Systems Handbook

Digital Equipment Corporation Sales Material

1. Open Systems Explored
1. Introduction
2. Open Systems: Concept and Reality
• The Evolution of Open Systems
• Definition of an Open System
• Perceptions of "Open"
• Standard Platforms
• Networking
• Availability and Accessibility
• Relating Definitions of Open Systems
• Open Systems Potential
• Standards for Open Systems
3. The Open Systems Environment
• Organizing the Discussion
• Elements and Components of MUSIC
• Other Services
• Aligning Products and Standards with the MUSIC Model
4. Application Environment Profiles
• Profile Development Within Standards Organizations
5. Applying Open Systems Information to Your Business
• Steps to Implement an Open Systems Environment
• Step 1: Know your business objectives
• Identify application requirements
• Prepare a profile that identifies the suite of capabilities needed to support your application
• Step 4: Acquire or engineer software that matches your profile
• Step 5: Verify the open systems characteristics of the application
• Step 6: Verify that business objectives are met
• Step 7: Repeat the sequence
• Human Factors
• Using Standards in Describing Applications
• Profile Development
• Levels of Conformance
• Managing Software Development
• Conformance Testing of Applications
• Using Standards in Buying Systems
2. Elements of an Open System
6. The Management Element
• The Management Element
• Description of Current Standards Work
• History and Current Status
• ISO/IEC Management Standards Activities
• TCP/IP Management Activities
• IEEE POSIX 1003.7 System Administration
• Open Software Foundation's Distributed Management Environment
7. The User Interface Element
• POSIX 1003.2: The Shell and Utilities Working Group
• Description of POSIX 1003.2 standards
• Form Interface Management System (FIMS)
• Description
• History and Status
• X Window System
• Description
• History and Status
• Graphical User Interfaces
• OSF/Motif
• Open Look
8. The System Services Element
• Languages
• Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
• Description
• History and Current Status
• POSIX-related International Work
• Graphics
• GKS
• History and Current Status
• GKS-3D
• PHIGS
• Description
• History and Current Status
• PEX
9. The Information and Data Services Element
• Data Definition and Access
• Database Language Standards
• The SQL Standard
• Network Database Language
• Remote Database Access
• Description
• History and Status
• Data Repository and Management Systems
• IRDS Description
• History and Status
• Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM)
• Document Data Interchange and Processing
• The Office Document Architecture (ODA) and Office Document Interchange Format (ODIF)
• Description
• History and Status
• Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Standard Document Interchange Format (SDIF)
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)
• Electronic Design Interchange Format (EDIF)
• PDES/STEP
• Description
• History and Status
10. The Communications Services Element
• The Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
• Description
• History and Status
• Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
• OSI Base Standard Description
• History and Current Status
• Functional Standards: International Standardized Profiles
• OSI-related Profile Work
• Testing
• Selected Established or Emerging Communication Standards
• ISO/CCITT X.400, Mail and Message Interchange
• ISO/CCITT X.500, Directory Services
• File Transfer Access and Management (FTAM)
• Remote Procedure Calls
• ISO/CCITT X.25 (WAN standard)
• Local Area Network (LAN) Standards
• IEEE 802.3 Standard for Ethernet Technology
• Token Ring — IEEE 802.5
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface
11. Other Concerns
• Security
• Communications Security
• Operating System Security
• Internationalization
• Software Development Environment
• PCTE
• A Tools Integrated Standard (ATIS)
• CASE Integration Services

• Appendix A: Overview Guide to Standards Developing Organizations and Consorta
• Appendix B: Standards Development Organizations
• Appendix C: Open Systems Environments
• Appendix D: Bibliography
• Appendix E: Glossary of Open Systems Environment/Standards-related terms

Don't have an ISBN, but is still the best book on Standards I've ever read.