"A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations" now in a WAIS server
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Subject: "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations" now in a WAIS server
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1991 19:45:53 -0500
From: emv@cic.net
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Ruth, Russ, et al. I have put the DISI Catalog into a WAIS server running at wais.cic.net. I don't know what the overlap is between the WAIS/Z39.50 community and the X.500 community, but if you are familiar with the WAIS software the server is located at wais.cic.net, port 210, database "disi-catalog". The original source is the "draft-ietf-disi-catalog-01.txt" as found on better internet-drafts archives. The WAIS source file is ftp-able from nic.cic.net:/pub/nircomm/wais/disi-catalog.src though I'd be happy to rename it to "x500-catalog.src" if that's the preferred name. The Directory Information Service Infrastructure WG is an IETF working group that promotes "directory services" developments, most notably X.500 services. This catalog is a list of available X.500 implementations, with information on which systems they run on, what the user interface is like, and interoperability reports. From some experience working with this source, it's clear that Ruth and Russ have put together a catalog that works very well with a WAIS server. There are enough keywords added to the various entries and enough structure to the materials that searches for individual items work well. If the original database from which the draft was produced is available somewhere, it would be possible to clear out some of the extraneous formatting necessary for RFC style. It's worth considering whether some more overlap or joint development should be pursued to take advantage of the potential synergy between X.500 implementations and WAIS/Z39.50 services. Services based on both sets of protocols have common problems, including the challenges of resource location, specification of document id's for references to external resources, and adoption by the great unwashed masses. An X.500 version of the "directory of servers" would seem to be one reasonable approach, as would a head-to-head comparison of WAIS and X.500 searches on sample data sets. --Ed Edward Vielmetti emv@cic.net emv@msen.com
- "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations" no… emv
- Re: "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations… Russ Wright
- Re: "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations… Simon E Spero
- Re: "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations… Steve Hardcastle-Kille
- X.500, SR/Z39.50 and networked information retrie… Jill.Foster
- Re: X.500, SR/Z39.50 and networked information re… Steve Hardcastle-Kille