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- X.500 Definition: Executive Introduction to Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi13.txt)
- X.500 Stds: Links to most sources of information on the X.500 standards (http://www.nexor.co.uk/~cjr/directory.html)
- X.500 Implement: A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi11.txt)
- X.500 Technical: Technical Overview of Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi14.txt)
- X.500 via telnet: at the prompt, enter X500whois host-name (telnet://rs.internic.net)
- X.500 via gopher: (gopher://judgmentday.rs.itd.umich.edu:7777)
- X.500 via WWW: from the X.500 Group at Brunel University (http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/wlu.html)
Definition: X.500 (OSI Directory Service) provides globally distributed directory service.