[comp.mail.misc] Where to find the X.500 docs

phil@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Phil Meyer) (06/04/91)

Can someone point me to any relavant info on the X.500 mail standards
proposals? I am trying to get a feel for what is going to happen with directory
services.  Our firm is about to launch a campaign to standardize email.  The
problem is that the people who are making the decisions are mostly unaware of
UNIX in general, and are looking at doing everything on the IBM host, even
though we have many large and small UNIX systems, and our InterNet host is a
SUN.  Many of the decision makers aren't aware of the InterNet, or what it is.

If you have some pointers to info that I can use to help give them direction, I
would appreciate it.

Thanks!
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moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (06/06/91)

There's an introductory document available for anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.toronto.edu as doc/x500intro.msword4.0.Z.

An Introduction to the X.500 Series Network Directory Service
by
Debra Deutsch
BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation.

The original of this paper is available from ddeutsch@bbn.com.
The format is that of Microsoft Word 4.0 on Macs.

	- moraes