Follow-on paper - X.500 Directory Schema Management

["Danny L. Silver" <[e-mail]>]

We have recently completed a follow-on paper to an earlier paper:
"Toward an X.500 Schema Management Methodology".
The new paper is simply entitled "X.500 Directory Schema Managment"
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ABSTRACT:

The X.500 Directory Service provides a powerful mechanism for storing and
retrieving information about objects in a distributed computing environment.
This requires the functional components of the
Directory Service to have knowledge of the structure and representation,
or {\em schema}, of the information held within the Directory. 
The management of the Directory Schema is a subject requiring further research
and development.  In this paper, we identify the three major technical elements
required for properly managing the Directory Schema.  We then focus on one
of these elements; propagation of the schema between functional components
of the Directory Service.  Three subproblems from within schema propagation
are presented, along with several alternative solutions.

You can obtain a copy of this paper for reveiw and comment from the 
anonymous ftp server:  ftp.csd.uwo.ca , file: pub/x.500/scheman.ps.Z

The file is in compressed, postscript format.
If anyone has difficulties accessing the server or printing the file please
let me know.

**** Your feedback on the paper would be most appreciated.  ****

.... Danny Silver.
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