RFC 2378 · INFORMATIONAL · 1998

The CCSO Nameserver Architecture

Overview

RFC 2378, “The CCSO Nameserver Architecture”, is an Informational document published in September 1998 by R. Hedberg, P. Pomes. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The Ph Nameserver from the Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has for some time now been used by several organizations as their choice of publicly available database for information about people as well as other things. This document provides a formal definition of the client-server protocol. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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