U.S. Federal government is creating a government-wide X.500 directory

Re: X.500 discussion, FYI
 (" The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) is a Federal
  initiative to enable users to identify, locate, and access or acquire
  publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic
  information resources.  GILS uses ANSI/NISO Z39.50, the American
  National Standard for information retrieval, and other relevant standards
  to support the deployment of Federal agency-based, Internet-accessible
  locators.  These locators provide users with descriptive, location, and
  access information for a wide range of Federal government information
  resources." from http://info.er.usgs.gov/public/gils/intro.html)


From: echristi(_at_)usgs(_dot_)gov (Eliot Christian)
To: Multiple recipients of list <wais-talk(_at_)wais(_dot_)com>
Subject: GILS/X.500 Gateway

The U.S. Federal government is creating a government-wide X.500 directory.
It is also required that the information in this resource be accessible as a
GILS-compliant server on the Internet.

I'd be interested in comments from anyone who can shed light on technologies
for establishing such a gateway.

Eliot Christian, US Geological Survey, 802 National Center, Reston VA 22092
echristi(_at_)usgs(_dot_)gov Phone(703)648-7245 FAX(703)648-7069