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> Hello,
>
> just to let you know some things:
>
> - The chairs DO plan to have an MHS-DS meeting in Seattle
>
> - Steve Kille has promised to have all the updates done by
>   March 11

Does this include a solution to my empty PRMD/ORG problem ? There seems to be
no interest of this list to discuss this problem or to discuss the solution
proposed bu Kevin Jordan.

>
> - We are currently discussing with the IETF management trying
>   to reconcile our views on the status of the group.
>
> In order to make progress on the last point, could those who
> are doing activity within this area, whether inside or outside
> the LongBud pilot, please send a message to the list describing
> their work and its status?
> Regards,
>
>                  Harald Tveit Alvestrand
>                    Co-chair, MHS-DS
>

We have installed Mail*Hub Version 2.1 and are using routing trees internally.
We want to replace the X.500 directory, which is connected to the german X.500
pilot project and has a few experimental entries with the internal X.500
directory with holds a lot more information together with the routing trees
as soon as the legal problems with data privacy are resolved here.

The University of Giessen, another site in Germany, is exactly in the same
situation as we.  They have installed and configured their routing trees
internally and will connect to the outside as soon as it is possible for them.
Some other sites here in Germanyare waiting till we have mastered our problems
before they will upgrade their software and participate at Long Bud.

The main problem we encountered till now is the use of routing trees for
mapping between X.400 and SMTP. First, it is not possible to represent empty
PRMDs and O(rganization) in the routing tree, which means we must use large
configuration files for these entries. Second, it seems that there are no
tools to administer a routing tree with the information from the RARE Mapping
Tables. Such local routing trees must be used as long as this information is
not put by someone in the Open Community Routing Tree. Manual administration
of such routing trees is painful and error prone.

In summary it takes us much longer as we expected to make our configurations
and to connect to Long Bud. If we have resolved our problems some sites will
show up in Germany, which will actively participate in Long Bud (at least I hope
so :-).

What about others ???

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Michael Storz
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