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- From: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Re: OSI == second system syndrome
- Message-ID: <BtMtov.9xK@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 07:48:31 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.154940.14823@sequent.com>
- Sender: news@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
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- sch@sequent.com (Steve Hemminger) writes:
-
- >* User friendly. Exchanging X.400 mail addresses is not friendly.
- > Having to have full information about every other machine you want to
- > talk to is not friendly (i.e Network, Transport, Session, Application
- > ...)
-
- This is solved by OSI with the X.500 directory services in a very elegant
- way. Unfortunately, most people don't know about it and still worry
- about ugly mail adresses. With the information provided in my
- .signature, you should be able to enter something like
-
- M Kuhn, Uni Erlangen, DE or
- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
-
- or something else and after a few seconds your mailer should know
- everything about my mailer (e.g. address, document types allowed, ...).
- E.g. test the de DUA that comes with ISODE.
-
- Markus
-
- ---
- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany
- Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | X.500 entry available
- -A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't-
- -even know existed can render your own computer unusable. (Leslie Lamport)-
-