RE: A web of directories

["Phillip M Hallam-Baker" <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

	That is exactly what the SRV record that I have been going 
on about for a year now does.

	It was deployed in the Vixie BIND code about 3 years back.

		Phill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-pkix@imc.org [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@imc.org]On Behalf
> Of Stephen Kent
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 12:24 PM
> To: Larry Layten
> Cc: Bob Jueneman; ietf-pkix@imc.org
> Subject: RE: A web of directories
> 
> 
> Larry,
> 
> >For e-mail certificates, can't you use the domain from
> >the internet e-mail address to point you to a DNS server
> >And can't that in turn point you to the correct LDAP directory.
> 
> One can certainly look up the user's DNS server based on e-mail address,
> but we don't have a record format in the DNS that points to an LDAP
> directory as a result.  One could define such a record type, though.
> 
> Steve
>