• From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:48:54 +0000

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

• References:
  • Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • RE: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
  • Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
    • From: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>
  • Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
    • From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
  • Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>