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        RFC 1609:

        Title:      Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory
        Author:     G. Mansfield, T. Johannsen & M. Knopper
        Mailbox:    glenn@aic.co.jp,
                    Thomas.Johannsen@ifn.et.tu-dresden.de,
                    mak@merit.edu  
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 30,044
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


There is a need for a framework wherein the infrastructural and
service related information about communication networks can be made
accessible from all places and at all times in a reasonably efficient
manner and with reasonable accuracy.  This document presents a model
in which a communication network with all its related details and
descriptions can be represented in the X.500 Directory.  Schemas of
objects and their attributes which may be used for this purpose are
presented.  The model envisages physical objects and several logical
abstractions of the physical objects.  This RFC is a product of the
OSI Directory Services Working Group of the IETF.

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute