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... Some currently available directory services on the Internet. ...
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As the Internet is comprised of a vast conglomeration of different
people, computers, and computer networks, with none of the hierarchy
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... any directory service must be able to deal with the fact that the
Internet is not structured; for example, the hosts foo.com and
v2.foo.com may be on opposite sides of the world, the .edu domain ...
... maps onto an enormous number of organizations, etc. Let's look at a
few of the services currently available on the Internet for directory
type services.
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... everyone on mazatzal.merit.edu who works on X.500. Thus, fingerd has
a limited usefulness as a piece of the Internet Directory.
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... database
contains a large amount of information which primarily deals with
people and equipment which is used to build the Internet. SRI (and
now GSI) has been able to collect the information in the WHOIS ...
... address, and fax number, I can easily
define an "Internet person" object class by defining "Internet
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... define an "Internet person" object class by defining "Internet
person" as a subclass of "person", with the additional optional
attribute of "e-mail address ...
... person" as a subclass of "person", with the additional optional
attribute of "e-mail address". Thus in my definition of the "Internet
Person" object class, all my "person" type attributes are inherited
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Barker, P., and S. Hardcastle-Kille, "The COSINE and Internet
X.500 Schema", RFC 1274prop(-> 4524prop) ...
... Replication Requirements to provide an
Internet Directory using X.500", RFC 1275, University College
London, November, 1991.
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... Hardcastle-Kille, S., "Replication and Distributed Operations
extensions to provide an Internet Directory using X.500", RFC
1276hist, University College London, November 1991.
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