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In article <BtuI66.56H@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
> I am especially interested in using X.400/X.500 over periodic dialup
> connections with slow lines (e.g. 9600bits/sec). If you can't bring the
> user to the database in realtime, then bring the database to the local system.

Well, that sounds like a lot of volume.

> If I see the huge traffic that is transported in the USENET every day from
> node to node in dialup systems, then it should be no problem to have a
> permanent copy of large portions of the directory information tree using
> the X.500(92) DISP (directory information shadowing protocol).

I think you're overestimating the volume that Usenet leaf nodes get. From home,
I feed a number of small systems that get a few tens of K per day. If I want
to get a useful subset of an Internet-scale X.500 directory, what sort of
volume am I looking at?
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