Initial version of SOLO draft released last week

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

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       Title     : Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO)                   
       Author(s) : C. Huitema, P. Pays, A. Zahm, A. Woermann
       Filename  : draft-huitema-solo-00.txt
       Pages     : 28
       Date      : 12/27/1993

We present here a simple access protocol to a "white page" service. 
This protocol is based on the experience acquired in several X.500 based
"white page" pilots, and builds upon such developments as the 
"user friendly naming" notation or the "centroids" concept developped 
in the "whois++" project.           

Although largely inspired by the X.500 protocol, SOLO does not try follow 
the X.500 model. Designing a SOLO front-end to an X.500 server is very easy, 
but the SOLO internetworking is not based on X.500 -- the navigation part is 
based on the WHOIS++ centroids. In fact, one can as well design a 
SOLO front-end to a WHOIS server, and only minor efforts are needed for 
redesigning a "finger" daemon to provide the SOLO service.  Conversely, 
the SOLO service is powerful enough to make gatewaying between X.500 
access protocols and SOLO easy.     

The first section of this memo present the basic SOLO protocol. The second 
section presents the methods which are used for "networking" SOLO servers. 
The third section is a formal definition of the SOLO protocol.  Section 4 
list the various SOLO information messages. Section 5 addresses the security 
implications of providing a SOLO service.                                                  

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