Christian> Having an O=INTERNET sit on top of the hierarchy looks nice for the
X.500
weenies but poses a lot of problems. To put it shortly, they will almost
certainly not accept to register it in the top level international X.500
servers, and you will be subject to endless debates such as why "INTERNET"
rather than "Internet Society" or why don't you locate the Internet Society
under its registration place, e.g. Washington, DC, US? All in all, we are
better off by not adding any unnecessary noise in the structure and do one of
the two followings:
There is something really wrong here. I can't tell if it is the threat of
the great unknown "THEY" who most certainly will give us trouble, or the
implicit assumption that "THEY" are more significant than 20 million
internet users. Some of us think that "THEY" should be more concerned
about what the users need than about their great debates. IBM put all its
great weight behind the ISO bandwagon, and it seems clear what happened to
IBM. I would hope that PEM takes that as a warning about similar reliance
on international standards that have been put in place years before any real
market was ever understood.
Peace ..Tom