This white paper has shown how a government department can make use of an External DSA to participate in a government wide directory in support of a PKI system, and various approaches to dealing with different configuration situations and different types of data. This paper takes a departmental view, and looks at what a department will realistically need to do, in order to provide a directory service that will integrate into the complete system.
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