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Operational Requirements for X
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group R. Hagens
Request for Comments: 1649 Advanced Network & Services, Inc.
Category: Informational A. Hansen
UNINETT
July 1994
Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains
in the GO-MHS Community
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.
1. Introduction
There are several large, operational X.400 services currently
deployed. Many of the organizations in these services are connected
to the Internet. A number of other Internet-connected organizations
are beginning to operate internal X.400 services (for example, U.S.
government organizations following U.S. GOSIP). The motivation for
this document is to foster a Global Open Message Handling System
(GO-MHS) Community that has full interoperability with the existing
E-mail service based on RFC-822 (STD-11).
The goal of this document is to unite regionally operated X.400
services on the various continents into one GO-MHS Community (as seen
from an end-user's point of view). Examples of such regional
services are the COSINE MHS Service in Europe and the XNREN service
in the U.S.
A successful GO-MHS Community is dependent on decisions at both the
national and international level. National X.400 service providers
are responsible for the implementation of the minimum requirements
defined in this document. In addition to these minimum requirements,
national requirements may be defined by each national service
provider.
This document refers to other documents which are published as RFCs.
These documents are [1], [2], [3], [4], [6] and [7] in the reference
list.
This document handles issues concerning X.400 1984 and X.400 1988 to
1984 downgrading. Issues concerning pure X.400 1988 are left for
further study.
Hagens & Hansen