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From: Stef@ICS.UCI.EDU (Einar Stefferud)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: New Group: comp.protocols.iso.x500??
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Date: 17 Jan 91 05:27:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: Your message of 14 Jan 91 22:04:35 +0000.
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Hello Brian, et al --

I was involved with starting MHSNEWS as an INTERNET mailing list with a
Distribution List based at NRTC.NORTHROP.COM, and another based at some
host in Norway, designed to minimize over-the-Atlantic traffic.  The
original impetus for MHSNEWS came from the European community and it has
had a strong international flavor ever since.

Later, I was the primary organizer and sponsor of the effort by Tim
Kehres to gateway MHSNEWS to comp.protocols.iso.x400, when Tim took over
the North American DL and moved it to TIS.LLNL.ORG.  Later we moved the
MHSNEWS mailing list from TIS.LLNL.ORG to ICS.UCI.EDU where Jerry Sweet
now does the ADMIN chores.

So, to cut to the chase scene, MHSNEWS was first a flourishing INTERNET
mailing list, and then it was gatewayed to USENET, with moderation of
USENET contributions back into the main MHSNEWS distribution list at
ICS.UCI.EDU.

The difference between the MHSNEWS case and your X.500 case is that
there is no flourishing X.500 group that is clamoring for USENET gateway
service.  At least I don't see any evidence of this, though I may be
missing something.

What we do have with X.500 is a collection of focused groups working on
various aspects.  There is the QUIPU list which is focused on QUIPU
pilots and such.  The WPP list is for the PSI WhitePages Pilot.  The
DSSIG is for the NIST OIW DSSIG (Directory Services Special Interest
Group of the NIST OSI Implementors Workshop).  I think there is
something called DS-IMPLEMENTORS, but I am not sure of it.  Surely there
must be some more, but I don't have any information on them.

So, I am not sure how to organize all this into a USENET gateway feed
that makes any sense.  Perhaps each of these should be fed into its own
USENET newsgroup, in some comp.protocols.iso.x500.[x,y,z,...]?

I expect that his is an issue for each of the separate X.500 mailing
list sponsor/moderators to resolve for them selves.  I am not one of
them, so I will leave the field to others to resolve.

Best...\Stef