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In article <Bwts1u.F60@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
|> toru@trl.mei.co.jp (Toru Sekine) writes:
|> 
|> >Does anyone tell me how the OSI directory uses for commercial cases
|> >and what company adopt it?
|> 
|> I have been told that Control Data operates a huge X.500 system for
|> in-house purposes, but only a few entries are readable from outside the
|> company for security reasons. A complete X.500 system is available for
|> their EP/IX system. Sorry, I don't know more details ...
|> 
|> Markus
|> 
|> -- 
|> Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany
|> Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de  |  X.500 entry available
|> --- Wer, wie, was? Wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nichts fragt bleibt dumm. ---

I may be out-guessing the originating poster's question, however, I
thought he was considering "commercial" to mean "product" or "service"
data base (e.g. yellow pages).

The X.500 directory is, in fact, general enough to be used as an
on-line "product" or "service" catalog.  Today we use it for "white pages"
services and as an "application finder".  Tomorrow???

NOTE - the X.500 pilot project was explicitly called a "white pages"
project because of issues raised by the poverty-stricken U.S. phone
companies (i.e. concerns about a "yellow pages" conflict).  I do not
recall all the details (e.g. yellow pages on a government sponsered
backbone, etc.), however, maybe someone "in-the-know" might 
consider contributing to this thread.....