>From: Jueneman(_at_)gte(_dot_)com
>Subject: Re: DUNS numbers and the NII
>Date: Thu, 26 May 94 14:06:18 -6
>Maybe I've gone off the deep end here, and if so I trust that someone will
>throw me a rope. I've been assuming that the DUNS number was really
_critical_,
>and that therefore it needed to be very tightly bound to an organization.
But
Type=1
Name=EDIRA - Contact Addresses
Path=1/Academic, Research and CEC Projects/EDI Registration Authority - CEC
Project/EDIRA - Contact Addresses
Host=concise.level-7.co.uk
Port=70
URL: gopher://concise.level-7.co.uk:70/11/Academic, Research and CEC
Projects/EDI Registration Authority - CEC Project/EDIRA - Contact Addresses
(Alternatively, you may use the Concise X.500 directory service to
search for the same documents.)
Contains info on CAs for EDI, the CA interfaces, mechanisms for issuing
smartcards etc. and the operational principles for the "UN"
registration infrastructure for EDI identifiers.
I have not see any intention of the project to delegate name
registration to the internet NICs etc, though they do do reuse
significantly the existing EDI infrastructure for registration
performed by Dun and Bradstreet, Visa, etc.
It includes a study of the operational UK Naming Authority,
and the method of mapping EDI identifiers to Distinguished
Names.
Its probably not legitimate to discuss this other than as an FYI in the
IETF stds process. (Though I think the OSI moratorium imposed by the
Internet IESG was lifted recently, so Ill take advice)