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<reference anchor='RFC1609'>

<front>
<title>Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory</title>
<author initials='G.' surname='Mansfield' fullname='Glenn Mansfield'>
<organization>AIC Systems Laboratory</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>6-6-3 Minami Yoshinari</street>
<city>Aoba-ku</city>
<region>Sendai</region>
<code>989-32</code>
<country>JP</country></postal>
<phone>+81 22 2793310</phone>
<email>glenn@aic.co.jp</email></address></author>
<author initials='T.' surname='Johannsen' fullname='Thomas Johannsen'>
<organization>Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Communication Technology</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street />
<city>Dresden</city>
<region />
<code>D-01062</code>
<country>DE</country></postal>
<phone>+49 351 4634621</phone>
<email>Thomas.Johannsen@ifn.et.tu-dresden.de</email></address></author>
<author initials='M.' surname='Knopper' fullname='Mark Knopper'>
<organization>Merit Network, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>1071 Beal Avenue</street>
<city>Ann Arbor</city>
<region>MI</region>
<code>48109</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>mak@merit.edu</email></address></author>
<date month='March' year='1994' />
<abstract>
<t>There is a need for a framework wherein the infrastructural and service related information about communication networks can be made accessible from all places and at all times in a reasonably efficient manner and with reasonable accuracy.  This document presents a model in which a communication network with all its related details and descriptions can be represented in the X.500 Directory. Schemas of objects and their attributes which may be used for this purpose are presented.  The model envisages physical objects and several logical abstractions of the physical objects.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1609' />
</reference>
