Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!DDNUVAX.AF.MIL!beach From: beach@DDNUVAX.AF.MIL (darrel beach) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: GOSIP from the grape vine Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 22:00:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 Now that implementation of GOSIP are appearing, or at are claimed, on certain vendor's shelves, I have a question or two maybe someone can answer. We've finally reached a point in tcp/ip where most (not all by any means) can support DNS and host tables are fading away. Now comes GOSIP (with its 3 versions thus far). It looks like at least for the near future, the mapping between OR (originator/recipient) addresses to some particular NSAP address is table driven, at least until directory services is fully implemented by all. Is this true, or have I missed something?? There also seems to be the beginning of a plethora of so called gateways to get from smtp based mail systems to X.400 based systems, and might add full suite GOSIP x.400. Now just how the heck you map some particular X.400 address to some particular user@host internet address seems a little dicey. From what I've seen, it looks like another big table to do the mapping. Has anybody implemented one of these beasts and knows the definitive answer?? ciao, Darrel Beach