tmallory@BBN.COM (12/21/89)
Marshall, > Back in July, NYSERNet started a White Pages Pilot Project using X.500 > over TCP/IP as the underlying technology. At the three month mark last > October, we hit nearly 100K entries at approximately 30 sites, about I hope to see White Pages access on my computer soon. This may be just the ticket to solving one of the drawback's of electronic mail, universal addressing. The only reason the telephone system's universal address space works is that there are directory services. And as many of us are being forced to accept, those directory services are not always cheap. > and executables. In addition, for each person you intend to have > registered, the DSA will require approximately 1K of primary memory. > (Yes, the DSA keeps entries resident in core, does its own memory management, > etc., etc., there are obscure technical reasons for this.) I'm the If the 1kbyte per user of ram could be moved to disk, we might be able to afford to support enough people... For my two cents, I'd expect fax machines to come with other interfaces soon enough, since there are three useful pieces to the machine (fax modem, scanner, and printer, plus the telephone line) which could be made available to other users in an office (or home) environment.with suitable serial and/or LAN interfaces. Tracy