Protocol Action: Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping to Proposed Standard
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Subject: Protocol Action: Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping" <draft-ietf-mixer-directory-02.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the MIME - X.400 Gateway Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Keith Moore and Harald Alvestrand. Technical Summary This protocol describes how to use an X.500 or LDAP directory to distribute information about the correct mapping between X.400 addresses and Internet E-mail addresses. Working Group Summary Questions have been raised about the goodness of having two means of distributing mapping information (DNS and Directory) on the standards track. With the MIXER spec, the requirement for a single, complete, globally consistent list of mappings, which never worked in practice, was removed; there now seems consensus that having both methods is reasonable. Protocol Quality The spec has been reviewed for the IESG by Harald Alvestrand.