Re: Writing Assignments from the March 11 meeting

[Ruth Lang <[e-mail]>]

Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 12:56:38 EST
From: Chris Weider <[e-mail]>

>    Do the authors of this paper want to contact everyone in the world who
> might be building implementations of the X.500 protocols, or do they just
> want to rely on organizations volunteering their implementation information
> after the authors make it clear that they are building such a document?

> I personally think it makes much more sense to rely on implementors voluntarily
> contacting the authors.  I think the extent of our fairness is to agree to
...

Chris,

I agree that the authors should not contact everyone in the world.  In
order to obtain voluntary responses, we need to exert a reasonable
amount of effort to construct a list of survey recipients, e.g., pilot
managers, mailing lists, etc.  If we are lucky, responses will come.

Ruth