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- IETF Integrated Directory Services Working Group Chris Weider
- INTERNET--DRAFT Merit Network, Inc
- Russ Wright
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- March 1993
-
- A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500
-
- Status of this Memo
-
- The authors are interested in documenting current advanced usages of X.500,
- particularly ones which go beyond the standard 'white pages' paradigm.
-
- This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas,
- and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet Drafts.
-
- Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted
- by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use
- Internet Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than
- as a "working draft" or "work in progress."
-
- Please check the I-D abstract listing contained in each Internet
- Draft directory to learn the current status of this or any
- other Internet Draft.
-
- This Internet Draft expires September 23, 1993.
-
-
- Abstract
-
- This document is the result of a survey asking people to detail their
- advanced usages of X.500. It is intended to show how various organizations
- are using X.500 in ways which extend the view of X.500 as a 'White Pages'
- service.
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- As the use of X.500 spreads in the Internet, organizations are finding
- uses for it which go beyond the 'white pages' paradigm which has been used
- to introduce it to new users. Consequently, to document those new uses and
- to encourage the wider use of X.500, we sent out a survey to obtain 'advanced
- usages' of X.500.
-
- 1.1 The survey
-
- The survey we sent out is included here for two purposes: 1) completeness, and
- 2) we'd like to encourage anyone who retrieves this document to send us their
- advanced usage for inclusion in the next revision.
-
- If you wish to fill this out, please send it to the working group list
- IDS@merit.edu.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Application Name:
-
- Author(s):
-
- Company or Institution:
-
- e-mail address for more information:
-
- If this is a product for public distribution, please give us the
- Type: FREE, COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, or PROTOTYPE/RESEARCH
- FREE - Anyone may obtain this product at zero cost.
- COMMERCIAL PRODUCT - One may purchase this product.
- PROTOTYPE/RESEARCH - This product is not yet available, only a prototype.
-
- If FREE, please give us:
- * FTP and/or FTAM address (if available via FTP and/or FTAM):
-
- If COMMERCIAL, please give us:
- * Directions to obtain product:
-
- Availability: (When will product be available?)
-
- List of platforms product runs on:
- [The platform list can be general - e.g. UNIX]
-
- Short Description (< 100 words):
-
- Full Description (< 1 page):
-
- Fig. 1: Advanced Usages Survey Template
-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- This survey went out to the following mailing lists:
- osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, disi@merit.edu (now ids@merit.edu), and dssig@ics.uci.edu.
-
- 1.2 Disclaimer
-
- Descriptions of the advanced usages were written by the implementors, and not
- by the members of IDS. Although IDS has worked with the description
- authors to ensure readability, no guarantees can be made regarding the
- validity of descriptions. Caveat emptor.
-
- 2 The Survey Responses
-
- 2.1 Index to Responses
-
- Application Page
-
- 2.2.1 Global Time-table Information Service .......................... 3
- 2.2.2 Pre-Message Security Protocol .......................... 4
- 2.2.3 Electronic Data Interchange .......................... 5
- 2.2.4 Network Topology Information .......................... 7
- 2.2.4.1 Shared Whois Information Project .......................... 7
- 2.2.4.2 Network Information Project .......................... 7
- 2.2.4.3 EARN's Network Directory .......................... 7
- 2.2.5 Soft Pages .......................... 8
- 2.2.6 X-Tel .......................... 10
- 2.2.7 Xerox Clearinghouse .......................... 12
- 2.2.8 X.500 Sendmail .......................... 13
- 2.2.9 LDAP .......................... 14
- 2.2.10 Gopher/X.500 Interface .......................... 15
- 2.2.11 Transparent ODA Conversion .......................... 16
- 2.2.12 X.500 and the whois protocol .......................... 18
- 2.2.13 X.400 table handling .......................... 19
-
-
-
-
-
- 2.2 Survey Responses
-
- 2.2.1 Global Time-table Information Service
-
- Application Name: Global Time-table Information Service based on X.500
-
- Date Received: 7/1/1992
-
- Date Last Validated: 7/1/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Jens Hofmann
- Cuno Lanz
-
- Company or Institution:
- Laboratory of Computer Engineering and Networks,
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
- Switzerland
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- c=CH; a=ARCOM; p=SWITCH; o=ETHZ; ou=TIK; s=Lanz (lanz@tik.ethz.ch)
-
- Type:
- experimental prototype; not public
-
- FTP address: <none>
-
- Short Description:
- This application aims at integrating the time-table information services
- offered by public transport providers of different scope (local, regional,
- national or international) into a homogeneous and unified user interface.
- X.500 is used to store the information in an autonomous and extensible way.
-
- Full Description:
- Most of the public tranport providers offer some kind of time-table infor-
- mation service like printed directory, help-desk, telephone support or PC
- software. Unfortunately these services have some of the following drawbacks:
- - no automatic update of data (information accuracy)
- - no global availability (place independency)
- - no permanent availability (time independency)
- - no inter-provider service (service integration).
-
- X.500 may serve as a vehicle to overcome these drawbacks as follows: The
- public transport providers store the time-table information in a standardized
- format on locally managed DSAs. There is some kind of special purpose DUA
- which (1) queries the user for the input parameters (date, time, source and
- destination station) then (2) searches for the relevant paths by querying
- the involved DSAs and (3) displays the resulting time-table to the user.
-
- In a diploma thesis a student is developing a new data model which supports
- easy selection of source and destination station as well as fast exploring of
- the time-table information. He is implementing a prototype application onto
- an existing DUA interface (based on HyperCard and running on Apple Macintosh)
- which is connected to the world-wide X.500 pilot service over DIXIE protocol.
- In order to test the prototype application the time-table information of the
- Swiss national public transport company and of most of the regional providers
- around the city of Zurich is included under the branch: c=CH;o=ETH Zurich.
-
-
- 2.2.2 Pre-Message Security Protocol
-
- Application Name:
- Defense Message System Directory
-
- Date Recieved: 7/1/1992
-
- Date Last Validated: 7/1/1992
-
- Author:
- Bob Cooney
-
- Company or Institution:
- The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, Washington
- and
- The Defense Information System Agency
-
- E-mail address for more information:
- cooney@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil
-
- Type:
- experimental prototype, not public
-
- FTP address: <none>
-
- Short Description:
- The U.S. Navy will build a directory based on X.500 to support the
- distribution of Pre-Message Security Protocol security keys.
-
- Long Description:
- The U.S. Navy has been asked to build a directory service to support
- the distribution of Pre-Message Security Protocol security keys.
- The Pre-Message Security Protocol will provide SMTP/X.400 security
- services for unclassified but sensitive mail on the Defense Data Network.
-
- The directory will be based on QUIPU. Proof of concept is expected by
- October 1992, with initial operational capacity by October 1993.
-
-
- 2.2.3 Electronic Data Interchange
-
- Application Name: An X.500 User Agent for Electronic Data Interchange
-
- Date Received: 7/10/1992
-
- Date Last Validated: 7/10/1992
-
- Author:
- Neil Weldon
-
- Company or Institution:
- Networks Group,
- Computer Science Dept.,
- Trinity College Dublin,
- Ireland
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- omahony@cs.tcd.ie
- nmweldon@vax1.tcd.ie
-
- Type:
- Research product and not for public distribution
-
- FTP address: <none>
-
- Short Description:
- The Directory is used to assist in solving the 'first order' problem
- associated with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). EDI is the transfer
- of trade documents between application processes in a processable form.
- The 'first order' problem describes the agreements that two organizations
- must come to regarding capabilities and preferences, before using EDI.
-
- To solve this problem we defined object types to allow the storage of
- product catalogues within the Directory, as well as information about
- the EDI readiness of trading partners: addresses, preferences and EDI
- capabilities.
-
- Full Description:
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the means by which organizations
- exchange trade related documents between application processes in an
- format which may be processed electronically.
-
- Before using EDI an organization must establish a series of goals and
- objectives, to establish what type of documents they wish to be able to
- transmit (invoices, purchase orders etc.) and what their communication
- requirements are. Each of these time consuming and tedious steps is
- usually done in conjunction with trading partners where these agreements
- regarding EDI capabilities and preferences must be made.
-
- To solve this 'first order' problem (the need to come to agreements with
- other organizations before trading using EDI takes place) we defined object
- types to allow the storage of product catalogues within the Directory. The
- Directory may also convey information regarding the EDI readiness of trading
- partners: addresses, preferences and EDI capabilities.
-
- Using an experimental User Agent based on Pod which was developed at Brunel
- in the UK, trade documents may be built up by selecting products from the
- stored catalogues. These documents are then encoded as an EDI Interchange
- after the Directory has been queried about addresses etc.
-
- The current object types are very basic and may only convey the minimal
- amount of information necessary. We are now in the process of extending
- this further to a full product class hierarchy which is being based on
- information that may be sent within an EDI trade document using the EDI
- standard document syntax EDIFACT.
-
- By using the Directory as a repository for product information to aid in
- EDI the catalogues become available worldwide. They may be replicated at
- various nodes, and the updating and propagation of changes to slave copies
- becomes trivial.
-
-
- 2.2.4 Network Topology Information
-
-
- There are three projects in this area; Merit Network's Shared Whois Information
- Project, Thomas Johannsen and Mark Knopper's Network Information project, and
- EARN's Network Directory.
-
- 2.2.4.1 Shared Whois Information Project
-
- Information on this is not yet available.
-
- 2.2.4.2 Network Information Project
-
- Information on this is not yet available.
-
- 2.2.4.3 EARN's Network Directory
-
- Application Name: Ditnet/EARN Network Directory
-
- Date Received: 7/7/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 7/7/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Peter Sylvester
-
- Company or Institution:
- Inria Rocquencourt - France
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- peter.sylvester@inria.fr
-
- Type: FREE (data owned by EARN/Bitnet)
-
- Short Description:
- The EARN/Bitnet Network database consists of descriptions of all
- participating members, network nodes, adminstrators, and topology
- information. This database commonly known as BITEARN NODES is being
- made available through x.500.
-
- Full Description:
- A full description of the contents of the EARN/Bitnet database
- can be found in some EARN internal document which is available
- as a file BITEARN NODES from any NETSERV in EARN/Bitnet. The contents
- of this file is mapped into an X.500 subtree containing descriptions
- of network nodes, adminstrational personnel, and topology information.
-
- The first version of the directory subtree will be created using
- a simple textual mapping to a flat directory tree using private attributes.
-
-
- 2.2.5 Soft Pages
-
- Application Name: Soft Pages
-
- Date Received: 9/25/1992
-
- Date Last Validated: 9/25/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Thomas Johannsen
- Glenn Mansfield
-
- Company or Institution:
- AIC Systems Laboratory,
- Tohoku University Sendai
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- spp-support@aic.co.jp
-
- Type:
- Intended for public distribution, not yet public
-
- FTP address: <none>
-
- Short Description:
- A file name look-up services for anonymous ftp servers, provides ls -lR
- information and ftp server address. Additionally, the nearest ftp site
- (from user's site) which holds the requested file is chosen.
-
- Full Description:
- With the growing of number and size of electronic archives for
- documents, programs and the like, the problem of finding and
- retrieving a specific file becomes more and more complex. Furthermore,
- bandwidth in the Internet is still limited. Users should be encouraged
- and supported to do local ftp sessions as often as possible instead of
- getting everything from the other end of the world (i.e. the net).
-
- The Soft Pages Project combines an Archie-like file look-up service
- with network configuration knowledge. A dedicated User Agent gives a
- suggestion how to retrieve a document in a network traffic optimized
- manner.
-
- Basically, Directory information introduced by Soft Pages falls into
- two parts: A file information part and a network configuration part.
-
- The file information part describes objects and attributes for file
- servers and their contents. For each file server, names and attributes
- of its files are stored and updated periodically. This provides global
- access to Archie-like information for all registered file servers and,
- furthermore, opens the way to store document description together with
- the file name. Thus, document search is not restricted to file name
- matches but might be run for keywords as well.
-
- The network configuration part provides information on networks
- (subnetworks), nodes and lines in the Internet. Furthermore, IP
- numbers can be mapped to network and node objects. In order to
- evaluate file server sites, Internet (site to site) connections are
- given a cost index and then alternatives are compared by their cost
- index. Cost index is a calculated parameter representing properties of
- a connection like speed, average traffic, charges etc. where values
- for the latter are hold as attributes to line objects.
-
- If a document is stored at two or more sites, the site with the lowest
- cost index (which naturally will be the "nearest" in network terms)
- will be chosen for retrieval. A Soft Pages User Agent basically
- interacts with the Directory for finding a pointer to the "best" copy
- of a file wanted by a user.
-
-
-
-
-
- 2.2.6 X-Tel
-
- Application Name: X-Tel's advanced applications
-
- Date received: 7/1/1992
-
- Date last verified: 7/1/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Colin Robbins
- Julian Onions
- Graeme Lunt
-
- Company or Institution: X-Tel Services Ltd.
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- x500@xtel.co.uk
-
- Type:
- Commercial Products / Ideas
-
- Short Descriptions:
-
- 1) Product Information. Products that have DUA facilites built in
- have a "latest info" button or other request method. When "pressed" a
- well known node below the X-Tel part of the tree is read. The
- attributes contain descriptions of the latest version of the software,
- new features etc.
- If you decide you would like the new version, a second read obtains
- the information required for a template order form.
-
- 2) BUG Status. As above, but obtains details of known bugs in the
- version of software you are running.
- (If only we could find a way of putting fixes in, and automatically
- updating the software itself!)
-
- 3) X-Terms. We have a conferencing product, allowing X users to
- "talk" and share windows. The problem is identifying which X
- Terminal device a particular user is currently on. One solution we
- are using is modify a users directory entry during login to say which
- X display they have logged into. The conference can the query the
- directory, and open windows on the appropriate device.
- The directory is also used to store details of current conferences, so
- new delegates can join the conference easily.
-
- 4) Organisation browsing. There are a rich set of attributes about
- people and their roles stored in the directory. We have a special
- purpose DUA that exploits this information, and presents information
- on who manages who, who is secretary for who etc.
- This is very useful when combined with the search ACL mechanism
- defined in OSI-DS 21 as different views can be given to different
- catergories of users.
-
- 5) MHS use of directory. The directory is use to store MHS routing
- information (as per the MHS DS working group documents)
-
- 6) Mail Lists. Details of mailing lists are stored in the
- directory. With careful use of access control, users can be given
- access so that they can subscribe and unsubscribe themselves to/from a list.
-
- 7) Details of restuarants in the Nottingham area are stored in the
- directory!
-
- 8) We plan to use the directory as a rendevuz for a multi-user
- adventure game. Each "room" will be a different entry, and modify
- operations will be used to pick up and put down objects!
-
- The next two are "advanced" features of our DUA, they may not be
- considered relevant to this document!
-
- 9) Templates. The directory is used to store template entries. Our
- DUA then uses this template when adding new users. Very useful, as a
- number of default attributes can be set.
-
- 10) Editors. Special purpose editors for a number of complex
- attribute syntaxes are built in to our DUAs. This includes QUIPU
- ACLs, and X.400 OR Addresses.
-
-
-
- 2.2.7 Xerox Clearinghouse
-
- Application Name: Clearinghouse Interface
-
- Date Received: 7/1/1992
-
- Date Last Validated: 7/1/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Margaret Avino
-
- Company or Institution:
- Xerox Corporation
-
- e-mail address for more information
- mavin.cin_ops@xerox.com
-
- Type:
- Early Design/Implementation stages
-
- Short Description:
-
- X.500 DSA interface to XNS (Xerox Network Services) Clearinghouse
- directory to provide access to Xerox Corporation's Clearinghouse via X.500
- DUAs.
-
- Full Description:
-
- Xerox uses the XNS network protocol suite to provide Mail, Filing, Directory,
- Authentication, etc. network services for the installed based of 45,000+ Xerox
- workstations. The Directory is based on the XNS Clearinghouse protocol which
- is similar to X.500 in that it contains objects which have properties
- (attributes) and is a fully distributed, replicatable directory. The searching
- capabilities of the Clearinghouse protocol are not as robust as the X.500
- search operation and the physical structure of the original database is not
- amenable to complex searches as it could be if it were stored in a relational
- database.
-
- The first piece of this project is to transfer the data into an Oracle
- relational database and create a new Clearinghouse server which accesses the
- oracle database and is a full fledged member of the Clearinghouse, sending and
- receiving updates to other servers using the XNS Clearinghouse protocol. This
- will allow powerful SQL queries to be performed on the data which will provide
- some very desired functionality such as: list all of the Distribution Lists of
- which this name is a member.
-
- To build on the new database, we are probing the implementation of an X.500 DSA
- interface to the Oracle Clearinghouse Directory. This would allow X.500 DUAs
- to access the data and utilize the powerful search operations. It will require
- the definition of one or more new object classes and several new attributes and
- some thought about the appropriate schema.
-
-
-
- 2.2.8 X.500 Sendmail
-
- Application Name: X.500 Sendmail
-
- Date Received: 9/25/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 9/25/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Tim Howes
-
- Company or Institution:
- University of Michigan
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- x500@umich.edu
-
- Type:
- FREE
-
- FTP address: terminator.cc.umich.edu
-
- Directions to obtain product:
- get x500/sendmail-5.65.x500.tar.Z
-
- Short Description:
- Modifications to sendmail-5.65 to do X.500 lookups.
-
- Full Description:
-
- We have modified sendmail-5.65 so that it does X.500 lookups, returning
- the value of a user's rfc822Mailbox attribute. It handles multiple
- matches by sending a message containing the choices back to the sender.
- If the user has no email address in X.500, the sender is sent a message
- containing postal and phone information on the user. Both exact and
- approximate matching is supported.
-
-
-
- 2.2.9 LDAP
-
- Application Name: LDAP
-
- Date Received: 9/29/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 9/29/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Tim Howes
-
- Company or Institution:
- University of Michigan
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- ldap-support@terminator.cc.umich.edu
-
- Type:
- FREE
-
- FTP address: terminator.cc.umich.edu
-
- Directions to obtain product:
- get x500/ldap-2.0.tar.Z
-
- Short Description:
- LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It provides lightweight
- TCP/IP-based access to X.500 services. This implementation includes a server,
- client API library, and sundry client programs.
-
-
- 2.2.10 Gopher/X.500 Interface
-
- Application Name: go500, go500gw
-
- Date Received: 9/29/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 9/29/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Tim Howes
-
- Company or Institution:
- University of Michigan
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- x500@umich.edu
-
- Type:
- FREE
-
- FTP address: terminator.cc.umich.edu
-
- Directions to obtain product:
- get x500/ldap-2.0.tar.Z
-
- Short Description:
- go500gw is a general gopher to X.500 gateway server. go500 is a gopher
- index server to X.500 gateway server. Both programs allow gopher users
- to access X.500.
-
- Full Description:
- go500gw allows users to browse through the X.500 directory information
- tree as if it were in gopher space. It also allows searching at each point
- at each point in the tree. go500gw makes some reasonably intelligent
- assumptions about what a user is searching for based on their position
- in the tree and what they type, so users do not have to know much of
- anything about X.500. go500 appears in gopher space as a single gopher
- index search server, and searches a specific subtree of the X.500 namespace.
- Both programs use the LDAP protocol to access X.500 and are distributed with
- the LDAP distribution.
-
-
- 2.2.11 Transparent ODA Conversion
-
- Application Name: Transparent ODA Conversion
-
- Date Received: 7/16/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 7/16/1992
-
- Author(s):
- MacFarland Hale (MITRE Open Systems Group)
-
- Company or Institution:
- The MITRE Corporation
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- machale@mitre.org
-
- Type:
- Not Yet Available
-
- Short Description:
- Plan to use X.500 in conjunction with X.400 and Open Document Architecture
- (ODA) to provide transparent translation of compound documents between a sender
- and one or more recipients.
-
- Full Description:
- In the future, MITRE would like to combine X.500, X.400 and Open Document
- Architecture (ODA) to automate the conversion of compound documents in such a
- way that the users need not know about ODA or even that the conversion is
- taking place. This will require new and/or updated X.400 products.
-
- A preferred compound document format (e.g., Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, etc.)
- for each user is stored in the X.500 directory. Each X.400 Message Transfer
- Agent (MTA) host also houses converters between each such format and the Open
- Document Interchange Format (ODIF).
-
- A user (sender) creates a document with his or her preferred compound document
- editor. Ideally, the editor software will have a link (e.g., button or
- pull-down menu) to the X.400 User Agent (UA). The user invokes the X.400 UA
- (either using this link, or outside of the editor software) to send the
- document as an X.400 message to one or more recipients. Next, the document may
- need to be converted to ODIF, and this may be done in one of two ways.
-
- Preferably, the X.400 MTA will be responsible for the ODIF conversion. The UA
- must somehow be told what format the original document is in. This may be done
- via the UA invocation from inside the editor, via a UA configuration file, by
- examining the filename extension, etc. It then tags the document to indicate
- the document's original format using one of the body parts: "Bilaterally
- Defined" (body part 14), "Nationally Defined" (body part 7) or "Externally
- Defined" (body part 15). The UA then sends the message, and the MTA interprets
- the tag to determine the document's format.
-
- For messages internal to MITRE, the MTA will look up the recipient's preferred
- document format. If it is different than the sender's format, the MTA calls
- the appropriate ODIF converter and sends the message. If the recipient's
- preferred format is the same as that of the document being sent, then no
- conversion is performed. For messages going outside MITRE, the document is
- always converted to ODIF. The user may prevent this by specifying that the
- enclosed document is not to be converted, in which case the UA simply sends the
- document in binary form with no special tag.
-
- Alternatively, the UA may do the conversion. As above, the UA must be told the
- document's original format. The UA may then call the appropriate local ODIF
- converter, and then send the message. There are some disadvantages to this
- approach: 1) ODIF converters must be purchased for and maintained on many more
- hosts; 2) the document is always converted to ODIF (unless the UA accesses the
- directory, but...); 3) conversion overhead could be traumatic on a small PC.
-
- At each recipient host, the X.400 MTA catches the incoming message, recognizing
- the contents as ODIF. It then looks up the recipients' preferred compound
- document formats, calls the appropriate converters to translate the contents,
- and then delivers the messages to the recipients. If the incoming message
- contains one of the format tags described above, then no conversion is
- performed (since the document is not in ODIF).
-
- Please note that MITRE is a not-for-profit organization. We will not produce
- commercial products to support this scenario, but we are anxious to encourage
- and work with companies interested in doing so.
-
-
- 2.2.12 X.500 and the whois protocol
-
- Application Name: Phone Book
-
- Date Received: 7/15/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 7/15/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Steven Schoch
-
- Company or Institution:
- NASA Ames Research Center
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov
-
- Type:
- FREE, see Steve
-
- Short Description:
- On-line edition of our phone book, using X.500 for storage and retrieval.
-
- Full Description:
- Phone Book is a user application which communicates using the
- Internet whois protocol. It is listed in the Internet Resources Guide
- as such. The latest incarnation, however, does not make use of a flat
- file -- it gets information from a DUA that performs conversions between
- information received via DAP and the format that users expect to get back
- from our Phone Book queries. The change to X.500 has allowed us to supply
- additional data such as E-mail address which do not normally appear in the
- phone book. The fields supplied in response to a query include:
-
- Name
- Telephone Number
- Mail Stop
- Office Number
- Organizational Affiliation (either a NASA organization code or a
- contractor name)
- E-mail address
-
- Queries may be made on any of the fields specified, with the office being
- divided into building and room components. A sample lookup might be:
-
- trident:297-->phbook yee
- Name Phone M/S Office Organization
- --------------------------- -------- ------- --------- -----------------------
- Arnold M. Yee 4-4315 258-6 N258/134 COMPSCICOR
- Cindy Yee 226-3 N226/105 CALSPAN
- cyee@ames.arc.nasa.gov
- David H. Yee 4-4106 213-8 N213/256 EEF
- david_yee@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov
- Dr. Helen M C. Yee 4-4769 202A-1 N202A/216 RF
- Harry Yee 4-6557 213-2 N213/101F EES
- Peter Edmond Yee 4-3812 233-18 N233/240 EDC
- yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
- Robert Yee 4-4122 T041-3 TA20/155 SFA
- robert_yee@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov
-
- 2.2.13 X.400 table handling
-
- Application Name: X.400 table handling
-
- Date Received: 7/15/1992
-
- Date Last Verified: 7/15/1992
-
- Author(s):
- Julian Onions
- Colin Robbins
-
- Company or Institution:
- X-Tel Service Limited,
- Nottingham, England
-
- e-mail address for more information:
- jpo@xtel.co.uk
-
- Type:
- FREE, not yet available to the general public
-
- Short Description:
- Implementation of the work of the IETF MHS-DS group. The goal is to put X.400
- tables into X.500 in order to facilitate gateway and routing functions.
-
- Full Description:
- See the Internet drafts for MHS-DS. NASA Ames Research Center is
- participating in the testing and development of the next release of the PP
- message handling software. The latest update (alpha test) contains usage
- of X.500 by X.400 for RFC 822<->X.400 gatewaying, as well as hooks for X.400
- intelligent routing. Use of X.500 to eliminate static tables will greatly
- improve the ability to maintain the information necessary for mail gatewaying
- and routing, while making it easier to keep this data current and well
- distributed.
-
-
-
- 3 Author's addresses
-
- Chris Weider, clw@merit.edu
- 2901 Hubbard, Pod G
- Ann Arbor, MI 48105
- (313) 747-2730
-
- Russ Wright
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- 1 Cyclotron Road
- Berkeley, CA 94720
- (415) 486-6965
- wright@lbl.gov
-
- 4 Expiration Date
-
- This Internet Draft expires September 23, 1993.
-
-