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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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