Directory Deployment BOF (dirdep)

Wednesday, August 13 at 0900-1130
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Chairs:  Chris Apple <capple@master.control.att.com>
         Roland Hedberg <roland.hedberg@umdac.umu.se>

DESCRIPTION:

There are five primary areas of concern when it comes to Directory
Deployment:

	a) installed base problems and mitigation strategies

	b) schema inconsistencies and mappings

	c) piloting activities in support of particular application use
	   of a directory service (e.g., forward knowledge of
	   certificates and a global white pages service)

	d) co-existance of multiple IETF standards-track protocols

	e) help and guidance for the people who deploy directories


All of the work items described in the draft charter as posted to
the ietf-dirdep@listserv.umu.se mailing list are believed to be
useful (eventually) based on the experience of the persons
requesting this BOF as well as based on many discussions with
IETFers and other folks. One goal of this BOF is to slice the
draft charter down to something more reasonable and focused based
on what's important enough to tackle _now_. The remaining work will
be tabled or perhaps pushed off into its own BOF/WG at a future
IETF meeting if there is sufficient interest to justify such work.

AGENDA:

I.     Agenda Review (all)

II.    Goals for this BOF (co-Chairs)

         A. discuss and prioritize fundamental goals of a WG of 
            this type (based on five areas of concern above)

         B. review existing draft DIRDEP WG charter

         C. reduce scope of work implied by draft WG charter to
            something doable in a shorter period of time based on
            prioritized goals

III.   Fundamental goals and motivation for this type of WG (co-Chairs)

IV.    Elimination of existing/addition of new goals as appropriate (all)

	 A. add goal related to deployment issues and requirements for
	    mission critical directory services ?

 	 B. add goal related to locating an appropriate directory service ?

V.     Prioritize goals (all)

VI.    Review and mark-up draft DIRDEP WG charter (all)

	 A. add mission critical directory services requirements document ?

	 B. add draft-greenblatt-defema-02.txt (Directory Entries
	    From E-mail Addresses) to charter as work item ?

VII.   Volunteers for Document Editors? (all)

VIII.  Next steps with dates (all)

IX.    Any other BOF business (all)