Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!uci-ics!gateway From: mmarsh@ciss.dayton.ncr.COM ("Mel.Marsh@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: x.400 for Internet? Message-ID: <1358@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM> Date: 6 Mar 90 21:39:46 GMT References: <22557@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Reply-To: "Mel.Marsh@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM" Organization: NCR Corp. Information Systems & Services Lines: 49 Approved: usenet@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU In article <22557@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.EDU writes: > >Hi, >I am rather niave on the subject of mail protocols, but now that >momentum is gathering for x.400 are there any *plans* to provide x.400 >in Unix and begin to transition the Net (mail/News) to X.400? >Thanks > At the Electronic Mail Association meeting in Miami last week there were presentations by Marshall Rose (involved with NYSERNet) and Stephen Wolff (NSFNet) about plans for X.400 and X.500 on the Internet. Stephen Wolff talked more about X.400 and Marshall Rose talked about X.500. There are plans to begin migrating Internet to X.400 over TCP/IP in the near future with full OSI stacks in the long future. Marshall Rose presented the results of a pilot using X.500 for "white pages" of Internet users which was very successful. Again, the short term plan is for X.500 to run over TCP/IP with long term plans for X.500 over OSI. There are many vendors who are developing X.400 and X.500 products for Unix systems. BTW, some e-mail addresses for you: Stephen.Wolff@nsf.gov Marshall.Rose@psi.com EMA has mailboxes on just about any e-mail service you can think of. ATT Mail !EMA CompuServe 70007,2377 Dialcom 63:PRD003 EasyLink 62886257 Envoy 100 EMA GEnie EMA iNET ema.association MCI Mail EMA OnTyme EMA.SUP SprintMail [ema/associates] mail/usa So pick your favorite service & talk to them. Also, both MCI and CompuServe have connections to the Internet. -- Mel Marsh NCR Corporation, Network Application Services Mel.Marsh@Dayton.NCR.COM