Skip navigational links. This is the second Network Notes in the Directories and X.500 series. In keeping with Canadian government policy, both the interface and the information are bilingual. The X.500 Standard GEDS is the Canadian federal government implementation of the X.500 directory standard. It was built by GTIS with the assistance of the system integrator, ISM Inc., on the Siemens Nixdorf corporate directory suite of software, Dir.
Work is still in progress.
Typical of X.500 implementation, GEDS replicates the White and Yellow Pages of printed telephone directories, the White Pages providing information by name, and the Yellow Pages providing access by service. This illustrates the great influence of the international telecom agencies in the design of the X.500 standard. The information maintained in each entry goes beyond that available in a printed phone directory. At least 100 different data elements have been identified and can be maintained for each National Library and other federal government employee listed in the directory. 3 Figure 1 3.