Tom> Since GTE will be establishing their own CA, it is up to GTE to
find distinguished Names for its employees subject to the PCA only. And
if you don't like what one PCA tells you, go find another. And since
you're a telephone co., just become an administrative domain, build your
own directory and put your employees in it, surely no one could stop you
from doing that.
Ned> As long as it doesn't get in the way of interoperability. Now that
many of the service providers (GTE among them, I think) are, under the
auspices of NADF, trying to come up with a way to interconnect
directories, there is at last some hope for the cause of X.500
interoperability in the United States.
I'm not sure I understand what the interoperability issue might be. If
I wish to create a name for myself that I can make a good, documented
case for that name, what does any directory or CA have to say about
that? Or perhaps more to the point, how could that create an
interoperability problem?
Peace ..Tom Jones