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Accessing the Directory
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The directory can be accessed over AARNet by using the anonymous
"fred" account on "wp.adelaide.edu.au" (login as fred, any password).
There is a choice of DUAs (Directory User Agents) that you can use to
access the directory. If you are running X you should try the pod dua.
If you do not have access to AARNet you can still query the directory
via e-mail. Send the message "help" to "whitepages@wp.adelaide.edu.au"
to find out how to query the directory via this method.

Setting up your own Directory
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If you want to run your own directory (or just run the user agents
locally) the software we are using is available for anonymous ftp (or
fetchfile) from ftp.adelaide.edu.au (sirius.oz) as
"pub/isode/isode-7.0.tar.Z", documentation is now packaged separately,
(up to date copies of the EDB files for the root, Australia and the 
Directory Management Domain (DMD) within Australia are also available
in the directory "pub/white_pages"). We are using dedicated DECstation-3100s
running Ultrix and although BSD based Unix systems are preferable most 
Unix platforms can be used. Work is also continuing on ports to other 
operating systems, such as VMS.

We have also made available binary distribution kits, which are also
available from ftp.adelaide.edu.au in the pub/white_pages/KITS
subdirectory. These kits provide the binaries to run a number of user
agents and the system agent (quipu), currently there are kits for SPARC,
Sun3, RISC Ultrix, and Pyramid 9800 series. These kits are suitable for
any sites with network access to AARNet (they do not support X.25).

If you need any assistance in setting up your DSA send mail to 
"aarn-ds@cc.uq.oz.au" and one of the group will try to help.

Registering information in the Directory
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We hope to soon provide a service where sites that cannot run their own
Directory can register some information in the Australian pilot.

Further Information
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As well as the newsgroup comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ, which discusses
ISODE there are a number of interested mailing lists which you can subscribe
to (or read via news you must post to the mailing list as currently the 
articles are only imported into the newsgroup). The two most interesting
ones are OSI-DS and QUIPU. The OSI-DS list (aus.net.directory.osi-ds)
is the discussion list for the IETF OSI-DS Working Group. The Quipu list
(aus.net.directory.quipu) discusses the Quipu implementation of the Directory.
To submit articles send them to "<list-name>@cs.ucl.ac.uk".

If you require any information about the AARNet Directory Project feel
free to contact Graham Rees at the Prentice Centre of the University
of Queensland (g.rees@cc.uq.oz.au).