Re: X.500 links

Steven E. Newton (snewton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:55:57 -0500

|> I am still coming to grips with the X500 view of the world and I am un
|> sure of how to proceed from here.
|>
|> Hmmm... Can somone point me to a good reference on X500. I've tried
|> wading through the the LDAP rfcs but have found them rather heavy
|> going and even there I find that there is an assumption that the
|> reader is familiar with X500 concepts. This isnt a critisim of
|> the rfc, or their authors. The rfc's job is to define the protocol not
|> provide a tutorial.
|

There's two books you should try to get copies of:

Rose, Marshall T. "The Little Black Book: Mail Bonding with OSI
Directory Services", 1992, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, ISBN 0-13-683210-5

Chadwick, David "Understanding X.500 The Directory", 1994, Chapman
& Hall, London, ISBN 0-412-43020-7

My links on X.500 (from my Hotlist):

http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/asid-charter.html

http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web&fmt=.&
q=LDAP+and+X.500+and+not+title%3A%22Web500gw+Help%22%0D%0A&r=ldap+X.
500+repository+FAQ+experience&d0=&d1=

ftp://nemo.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/oiw/dssig/

ftp://nemo.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/oiw/dssig/ISO-IEC-9594/

http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/public/computing/ccitt/ccitt-standards/1992/X/

ftp://ftp.es.net/pub/whitepages/.INDEX.html

ftp://ftp.es.net/pub/ietf/osids/.INDEX.html

http://www.nexor.co.uk/users/cjr/directory.html

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/networking/directory/directory.html

http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/x500/

ftp://usdsa.psi.net/pub/x500/

http://x500.utexas.edu/

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/web500gw/index.html

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsap/Directory/

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/networking/directory/x500ldapfaq.html

Also on LDAP:

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/networking/directory/doc/ldap/ldap.html

http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/

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