RE: Access Control document

[Alan Lloyd <Alan.Lloyd@OpenDirectory.com.au>]

Yes agree with most of this - I am sure that most orgsanisations
involved with the development of directories and directory standards
will be putting a few million into the process. It would seem odd to re
invent something and spend that money on a different design when 10
bucks can save thousands and reduce risk.

In Aus and I think it applies to all ISO docs, a part of the doc can be
reproduced (say 10 pages) without breach of copy right notice.

the IETF could check this and see if they get the respectice parts of
501 for circulation.

regards alan
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David J Woolley [SMTP:djw@bts.co.uk]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 11, 1998 5:44 AM
> To:	dboreham@netscape.com
> Cc:	ietf-ldapext@netscape.com; ietf-asid@netscape.com
> Subject:	Re: Access Control document
> 
> > 
> > > 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 that facility was withdrawn 2 or 3 years ago.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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