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Network    Working Group                                        A. Getchell
Request for Comments: 1632        Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
FYI: 11                                                      S. Sataluri
Obsoletes: 1292                                   AT&T Bell Laboratories
Category: Informational                                          Editors
                                                                May 1994


          A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations

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

   This document is the result of a survey that gathered new or updated
   descriptions of currently available implementations of X.500,
   including commercial products and openly available offerings. This
   document is a revision of RFC 1292. We contacted each contributor in
   RFC 1292 and       requested an update and published the survey template in
   several mailing lists and obtained new product descriptions.

   This document contains detailed description of twenty six (26) X.500
   implementations - DSAs, DUAs, and DUA interfaces.

1.  Introduction

   This document catalogs currently available implementations of X.500,
   including commercial products and openly available offerings.  For
   the purposes of this survey, we classify X.500 products as,

   DSA
        A DSA is an OSI application process that provides the Directory
        functionality,

   DUA
        A DUA is an OSI application process that represents a user in
        accessing the Directory and uses the DAP to communicate with a
        DSA, and

   DUA Interface
        A DUA Interface is an application process that represents a user
        in accessing the Directory using either DAP but supporting only
        a subset of the DAP functionality or a protocol different from
        DAP to communicate with a DSA or DUA.



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