Re: Access Control document

["David J Woolley" <djw@bts.co.uk>]

> 
> > It seems to me that a useful piece of work would be to evaluate the
> > X.500 access control specification (probably including the recent X.500(1997)
> 
> Is this specification available for people to read on the 'net ?
> 

I'm pretty sure that, like most non-IETF standards, it is only 
available for money.  There was a brief period in which such 
documents were made available, on the theory that they wouldn't 
compete with sale of paper copies that funds the ISO and ITU, but 
that facility was withdrawn 2 or 3 years ago.  The drafts will 
normally be available on the net, it is only the final versions that 
have the strict copyright imposed.

If you don't mind the 1988 version, fascicle viii.8 of the ITU 1998 
Reccommendations should be priced at about US$ 10 to 20, if still 
available, but since then the reccomendations have been published 
individually, at about that price for each part, and getting a full 
set can prove quite expensive (there were 8 parts to the X.500 
series in 1988), although still very little in terms of the complete 
cost of a development project; I would certainly hope that Netscape 
has copies.

Fascicle viii.8 is the whole of X.500, but you need several more to 
specify the complete protocol stack.

The ITU has an online subscription service that might be cheaper for 
heavy users of their documents.

The URL that was quoted is just the ASN.1 formal spec, with a specific
copyright release.  On a quick look it does seem to cover other 
application pre-requesites.  It doesn't have the supporting narrative.

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