On 01/02/12 21:11, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Flynn scripsit:
>
>> The OSI stuff was truly a nightmare to implement. An object lesson in
>> how not to construct a suite of protocols. Perhaps the sole legacies of
>> X.500 are the ghastly mess that is AD internals, and the use of the word
>> "distinguished" :-)
>
> Well, LDAP is hardly dead.
That I grant you, but I think that was designed for TCP/IP. I tried to
implement a QUIPU X.500 directory once and gave up (and that was with
personal tutelage from one of the authors).
///Peter
