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        RFC 1943:

        Title:      Building an X.500 Directory Service in the US
        Author:     B. Jennings
        Date:       May 1996
        Mailbox:    jennings@sandia.gov    
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 51,266
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1943.txt


This document provides definition and recommends considerations that
must be undertaken to operate a X.500 Directory Service in the United
States.  This project is the work performed for the Integrated
Directory Services Working Group within the Internet Engineering Task
Force, for establishing an electronic White Pages Directory Service
within an organization in the US and for connecting it to a wide-area
Directory infrastructure.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
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