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In article <19921102.005@erik.naggum.no> Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>First of all, "white pages" commonly refer to listings sorted
>alphabetically rather than topically, such as by service.  Unless I have
>misunderstood X.500, it's precisely a "white pages" kind of thing.
>Hence the name.

Entries in X.500 are not sorted at all, although they are organised
hierarchically. Searching for a particular organisation given a name
(white pages style searching) _should_be_ no more difficult than searching
for an organisation by a topic (yellow pages style searching) (*).
Indeed there is a standard attribute 'businessCategory' which could be
used to capture exactly this type of information.

Andrew Waugh

(*) Implementations vary of course.