Represent Internet applications in the X.500 Directory

Francisco Luis Pinto <francisco@uminho.pt> Thu, 05 August 1993 16:12 UTC

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 17:33:05 BST
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From: Francisco Luis Pinto <francisco@uminho.pt>
Message-Id: <9308051633.AA13921@viriato.uminho.pt>
To: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Represent Internet applications in the X.500 Directory

Hello,

I want to represent an Internet application (e.g gopher, archie, etc)
in the X.500 Directory, but I don't know where I can put this object.

 a) In the organizational X.500 hierarchy, and represent it as an 
    Application Entity, under an Application Process (home host)?, or 

 b) In the DNS X.500 hierarchy, and represent it as an Application Entity, 
    under a Application Process, too an Domain Name?, or 

 c. In the DNS X.500 hierarchy, and represent it as a Domain Name
    (dNSDomain), and use the attribute dNSRecord to describe this
    Internet Application Service in an WKS/DNS resource record?

In a) and b), the problem is that the mandatory attribute 
"presentationAddress" of Application Entities, addresses only OSI 
application entities.

The problem in c), is that we can only represent an Internet application
service with an attribute value rarely used.

I've read the RFC1279 - X.500 and Domains, and in the 9th. section, they
talks about the representation of Application Entities in the DNS X.500 
Hierarchy, but I'm very confused about this.

Can anybody help me?

thanks,

Francisco Pinto
University of Minho
Portugal
e-mail: francisco@uminho.pt

Represent Internet applications in the X.500 Dire… Francisco Luis Pinto