Re: Description

Russ Wright <Wright@lbl.gov> Mon, 05 September 1994 00:57 UTC

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From: Russ Wright <Wright@lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: Description
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>  Short-term:
>     Element definitions will be made available for anonymous FTP from
>     the InterNIC in ftp://ds.internic.net/pub/src/x500/schema, and via
>     Gopher (gopher://ds.internic.net/1pub/src/x500/schema).  The FTP
>     archive will include ASN.1 definitions accompanied by text describ-
>     ing the semantics and use of each object class or attribute.  In
>     addition, native formats for widely deployed X.500 implementations,
>     particularly the QUIPU OID Table format, will be included where
>     practical.
>
>The actual registry doesn't yet seem to have materialized, so don't
>bother chasing after these pointers at the moment.
>

We're close and will announce it to osi-ds when it becomes available.

Russ

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