Message-Id: <9310061609.AA25625@bachmann.austin.ibm.com>
To: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
Subject: Re: MTV and Panix .plan file dispute? --Panix replies.
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Wed, 06 Oct 93 07:21:34 MST.)
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 11:09:12 -0600
From: Dave Bachmann <bachmann@austin.ibm.com>
> X.500 is far from deployment. While the protocol is defined (some say
> overly so), there is no reference implementation which is trivial to test,
> and the only work that seems to be going on is in the commercial sector.
> "Sure", we are told, "you can have directory services! Did you bring your
> check book?"
A lot of people have been using the ISODE/Quipu free implementation for
several years now. I know of at least a couple sites that are making
major use of it, e.g. University of Michigan has the entire staff and
student directory online using Quipu, and aggressively developed and
deployed simple clients to use it. So I don't think I'd agree with the
above assessment.
dave