X.500 DUA API

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3 total messages Started by Charles Wolverton Wed, 07 Oct 1992 22:19

#903

Author: Charles Wolverton
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 22:19

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Other than the OSF's XDS, does anyone know of emerging "standard" APIs for
X.500 DUAs?? (cf. MAPI, VIM, XAPIA for X.400.)

-chas

Charles T. Wolverton                  The Aerospace Corporation
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Re: X.500 DUA API

#905

Author: William Pope
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 10:23

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In article <ctw-071092151351@bacchus.aero.org> ctw@aero.org (Charles Wolverton) writes:
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>Other than the OSF's XDS, does anyone know of emerging "standard" APIs for
>X.500 DUAs?? (cf. MAPI, VIM, XAPIA for X.400.)

XDS and XOM are the work of X/Open.  The OSF DCE name service does support
the XDS API.  I know of no other standard X.500 API.

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Re: X.500 DUA API

#907

Author: Brian May
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 04:31

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In article <ctw-071092151351@bacchus.aero.org>, you write:
|> Other than the OSF's XDS, does anyone know of emerging "standard" APIs for
|> X.500 DUAs?? (cf. MAPI, VIM, XAPIA for X.400.)


I have the dubious good fortune to be implementing X/Open's XOM/XDS APIs at the
moment.  As far as 'standard' APIs go, basically you've got 2 flavours of
the APIs I just mentioned.

From X/Open:

XOM	-	Generic OSI data management API
XDS	-	X.500 API (which needs XOM)

The definitions are, as far as I can tell 'stable' - meaning they are not
likely to change.

From IEEE/POSIX

P1224		Generic OSI data management API
P1003.17	X.500 API (which needs P1224)

The POSIX APIs are based upon XOM & XDS and are still under development.

That's what I know of re: availability.  If you want any technical comments 
on the X/Open APIs, feel free to ask - there's plenty to talk about.

brian
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