waldorf@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Jerry Waldorf) (08/21/90)
I would like to learn some more information about the Directory assistance protocol X.500. Could someone give me a pointer to some information on this subject. Thanks.
swope@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Darrell Swope) (08/22/90)
I assume that you mean the Directory Access Protocol (DAP) in relation to X.500. As far as information on DAP or X.500 in general there are the best source would be the standards documents. The X.500 Blue Book is the official document from CCITT and is called the "Recommendations X.500 to X.521". This document can be obtained from Omnicom Inc. (115 Park Street, S.E., Vienna, VA 22180; 703/281-1135). Be forewarned, this document is fairly technical and quite expensive. The is also a small mention of X.500 in Marshall Rose's book "The Open Book, A Practical Perspective On OSI". This book is more geared toward a general discussion of OSI however. There is also an implementation of X.500 called QUIPU that is being run on the Internet as a pilot project for using X.500 in a real world setting. You can contact Marshall Rose at mrose@nisc.nyser.net for more information on QUIPU. Darrell Swope