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Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X
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Network Working Group H. Alvestrand
Request for Comments: 1802 UNINETT
Category: Informational K. Jordan
Control Data Systems
S. Langlois
Electricite de France
J. Romaguera
NetConsult
June 1995
Introducing Project Long Bud:
Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory
Information in Support of X.400 Routing
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
The Internet X.400 community (i.e., GO-MHS) currently lacks a
distributed mechanism providing dynamic updating and management of
message routing information. The IETF MHS-DS Working Group has
specified an approach for X.400 Message Handling Systems to perform
message routing using OSI Directory Services. The MHS-DS approach
has been successfully tested in a number of local environments.
This memo describes a proposed Internet Pilot Project that seeks to
prove the MHS-DS approach on a larger scale. The results of this
pilot will then be used to draw up recommendations for a global
deployment.
1. Background
The 1988 edition of X.400 introduces, among other extensions or
revisions, the concept of O/R Names which assumes the existence of a
widely available Directory Service. This Directory Service is needed
to support several MHS operations (support for names to identify
senders and receivers of messages in a user-friendly fashion, support
for distribution lists, authentication of MHS components, description
of MHS components capabilities...).
The prime advantage of Directory Names, as perceived by many users,
was to release users from the remembering of complex O/R Addresses
for their correspondents.
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