Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 01/02/12 21:11, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Flynn scripsit:
>
>> The OSI stuff was truly a nightmare to implement. An object lesson in
>> how not to construct a suite of protocols. Perhaps the sole legacies of
>> X.500 are the ghastly mess that is AD internals, and the use of the word
>> "distinguished" :-)
>
> Well, LDAP is hardly dead.

That I grant you, but I think that was designed for TCP/IP. I tried to 
implement a QUIPU X.500 directory once and gave up (and that was with 
personal tutelage from one of the authors).

///Peter