Network Working Group G. Mansfield
Request for Comments: 1609 AIC Systems Laboratory
Category: Experimental T. Johannsen
Dresden University
M. Knopper
Merit Networks, Inc.
March 1994
Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
There is a need for a framework wherein the infrastructural and
service related information about communication networks can be made
accessible from all places and at all times in a reasonably efficient
manner and with reasonable accuracy. This document presents a model
in which a communication network with all its related details and
descriptions can be represented in the X.500 Directory. Schemas of
objects and their attributes which may be used for this purpose are
presented. The model envisages physical objects and several logical
abstractions of the physical objects.
Mansfield, Johannsen & Knopper