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Article: Ansi settling name claims; groups rush for rights to OSI stream titles. (the selection of convenient alphanumeric identifier names for Open Systems Interconnection business communications by the American National Standards Institute)(Standards) (Field Report)
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- Software Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
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The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill triggered the California Gold Rush of 1849. Gold discovered in the Klondike started the Yukon Gold Rush in 1896. In 1991, the selection of convenient alphanumeric identifier names for OSI business communications is the equivalent of electronic gold for automated business transactions in the 1990s and beyond, accoding to key observers. Organizations are staking claims to name rights in the electronic streams of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications.
The American National Standards Institute (Ansi) Registration Coordinator has been charged with establishing a U.S. national registry of unique organization names. ...