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