Re: Rep (2) : QUIPU vs X.500 (was: A tool for...)

[Sylvain Langlois <[e-mail]>]

> I don't want to get into a dispute, but then I want that it is stated clearly
> that either
>    the Paradise pilot is a Quipu pilot 
> 	(because the statement that RFC1276 is the only key is FALSE)
>    or it is an X.500 pilot
> 	(then QUIPU should be fixed asap, because it is not suited
> 	as such for what it is been used for)
> so that each one will decide on its own.

I'm neither trying to support fully (blindly?)  Steve  comments nor to
express the  IC view, but  what  I understood from  Steve's reply  was
not that RFC-1276 was the  only key to the probleme. I understood that
is was  the  only proposal  widely deployed today.  RFC-1276  has some
serious  limitations (bugs?) which may or  may  not  be  fixed  sooner
or  later (depending on various considerations).  The only fact I see,
from  an  operationnal  standpoint,   is  that  products  implementing
RFC-1276  today  provide  a  mechanism  solving  current  operationnal
problems. This mechanism is not perfect: I  would  guess  that most of
the  people in charge of  running DSAs  today  are  waiting for a real
interoperable standard solution to be available  in terms of  "running
code", but until then these  people  can use  RFC-1276  as an  interim
solution in order to cure a real operationnal pain.  

Sylvain
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