Directory Technologies
Directory Technologies
Some useful X.500
links are provided and maintained by Colin Robbins at Nexor.
A good article
by Tim Howes, co-author of the LDAP specification.
Bath University in
the UK provide and maintain a page containing pointers to various X.500-related
sources of information.
LDAP
FAQ This page is designed to be a road map for bringing oneself up
to speed on X.500 & LDAP and is a sort of framework of a tutorial/bibliography.
A
Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER is available, in
postscript format, from RSA Labs (written in support of RSA's Public Key
Cryptography package). Other formats are available in adjacent
subdirectories.
LDAP
World at Innosoft provides current information on the status
of the LDAP specifications, availability of LDAP products, and deployment
of LDAP-based directories. It is a free and unsupported service provided
to the Internet community by Innosoft
The draft X.500 1997
standard and parts of the published 1993 standard are mirrored
in the DANTE document store.
LDAP
at NeXor including a MAPI address book provider.
Some of the papers
written by Brunel's X.500 group are on the web.
X.500
take off - the facts! - a paper by Roger Molesworth of Logica. It appeared
in EEMA Briefing, the official journal of the European Messaging Association,
May/June 1996 issue.
The
X.500 group at Brunel
have produced Directory
User Interfaces for a range of platforms.
A number of other
X.500 products and vendors are listed in the online
catalogue produced by the IETF.
Last update: May 2000