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1) was rectified pretty easily, there were X.500 implementations on top of TCP/IP. 2) was definitely annoying. They seem to have loosened restrictions on access
by hyc_symas 4y ago
1) was rectified pretty easily, there were X.500 implementations on top of TCP/IP. 2) was definitely annoying. They seem to have loosened restrictions on access to the specs these days.
X.500 (and X.400) got a lot of pushback in the IETF crowd because of the use of ASN.1, while all IETF protocols of the era were still plaintext. It's been enormously clear from then till now that binary protocols are superior in terms of network efficiency, and everyone has tools like wireshark / etherpeek / whatever rendering the human readability of packets a moot point.