Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid)
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 Charter 
 Last Modified: 05-Aug-97
 
 Current Status: Active Working Group
 
 Chair(s):
     Tim Howes <howes@netscape.com>
     Patrik Faltstrom <paf@swip.net>
 
 Applications Area Director(s): 
     Keith Moore  <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
 Applications Area Advisor: 
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:ietf-asid@umich.edu
     To Subscribe:      ietf-asid-request@umich.edu
     Archive:           ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ietf-asid/archive
 
Description of Working Group:
 
There is a clear need to provide and deploy a well managed 
Directory Service for the Internet. A so-called White Pages Directory 
Service providing people and organizational information, is especially 
long overdue.  While the ultimate goal is a general Directory Service 
for the Internet, this is too ambitious a goal to be tackled by a 
single working group. Therefore ASID will keep a tight focus on access 
and synchronization protocols for an Internet White Pages Directory 
Service.

Other related working groups will be formed in the Applications Area  
that will deal with other aspects of the Internet Directory Service.
 
Currently there are various protocols under development in the 
Internet that aim to provide such a service: Internet X.500, WHOIS++, 
NETFIND, CSO, RWHOIS, etc.  To allow these services to evolve to a 
ubiquitous Internet Directory Service, a hybrid system that allows 
interaction between the various different services is a requirement.
  
The ASID Working Group will define, evolve, and standardize protocols,
algorithms and access methods for a White Pages Directory Service on 
the Internet.

The following protocols (some still under development, some completed 
by other IETF working groups) will be considered by the working group:
 
 - Lightweight Directory Acces Protocols (LDAP and Connectionless 
   LDAP)

 - User Friendly Naming (UFN) and User Friendly Searching (UFS)

 - The SOLO directory access and searching system

 - The WHOIS++ directory service
	  
The following work items are handled by other groups, and as such are
outside the scope of this group. However their results are important 
to the development of a White Pages Directory Service, and will be taken
into account:
		
 - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

 - The UR* definitions

 - The NETFIND directory service
		 
The group will focus on harmonizing, evolving and developing protocols
and algorithms that deal with access to and synchronization of Directory 
Service, both ad hoc and standards-based, with a goal of converging here 
possible towards a hybrid system that ties together various forms of 
Directory Service.  Clearly, protocol-level integration is only part of 
the solution.  But to keep this group tightly focused, harmonizing 
directory information and service models will be tackled by other 
working groups.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Jul 94       SOLO revised Internet-Draft published.                         

   Jul 94       CLDAP Internet-Draft submitted as Proposed Standard.           

     Done       X.500 URL Internet-Draft published.                            

   Sep 94       SOLO URL Internet-Draft published.                             

   Sep 94       Stand-alone LDAP Internet-Draft published (LDAP without X.500).

   Sep 94       SOLO Internet-Draft submitted as Proposed Standard.            

     Done       LDAP URL Internet-Draft published.                             

   Nov 94       Revised versions of all Internet-Drafts.                       

   Jan 95       Submit all Internet-Drafts as Proposed Standards.              


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised       I-D Title  <Filename>
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 Jul 95 Jul 97  <draft-ietf-asid-mime-direct-04.txt> 
                A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information                  
 
 Jul 95 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-cache-01.txt> 
                A Simple Caching Scheme for LDAP and X.500 Directories         
 
 Feb 96 May 97  <draft-ietf-asid-whois-url-01.txt> 
                WHOIS++ URL Specification                                      
 
 Mar 96 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-attributes-08.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):  Attribute Syntax 
                Definitions                                                    
 
 Mar 96 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-protocol-08.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)                     
 
 May 96 Aug 97  <draft-ietf-asid-mime-vcard-03.txt> 
                vCard MIME Directory Profile                                   
 
 Jun 96 Sep 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-dynamic-06.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):  Extensions for 
                Dynamic Directory Services                                     
 
 Aug 96 Apr 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-dn-03.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String 
                Representation of Distinguished Names                          
 
 Aug 96 Sep 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-domains-02.txt> 
                Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names                
 
 Nov 96 Jun 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-lang-02.txt> 
                Use of Language Codes in LDAPv3                                
 
 Nov 96 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-whois-schema-02.txt> 
                WHOIS++ templates                                              
 
 Nov 96 Aug 97  <draft-ietf-asid-inetorgperson-01.txt> 
                Definition of the inetOrgPerson Object Class                   
 
 Nov 96 Jul 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldif-02.txt> 
                The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical 
                Specification                                                  
 
 Nov 96 Mar 97  <draft-ietf-asid-whoispp-01.txt> 
                Architecture of the WHOIS++ service                            
 
 Dec 96 Jul 97  <draft-ietf-asid-changelog-01.txt> 
                Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records      
 
 Feb 97 Mar 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-simplepaged-01.txt> 
                LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation   
 
 Mar 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-rpcschema-00.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol:  Schema for Storing RPC 
                Entries in a Directory Service                                 
 
 Mar 97 Jul 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-mult-mast-rep-01.txt> 
                LDAP Multi-master Replication Protocol                         
 
 Mar 97 Aug 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-url-04.txt> 
                The LDAP URL Format                                            
 
 Mar 97 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-filter-03.txt> 
                The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters               
 
 Mar 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-email-routing-ns-00.txt> 
                LDAP-based Routing of SMTP Messages: Approach Used by Netscape 
 
 Mar 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-email-routing-su-00.txt> 
                LDAP-based Routing of SMTP Messages: Approach at Stanford 
                University                                                     
 
 Mar 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-strong-00.txt> 
                X.500 Strong Authentication Mechanisms for LDAPv3              
 
 Mar 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-schema-pilot-00.txt> 
                A Summary of the Pilot X.500 Schema for use in LDAPv3          
 
 Mar 97 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3schema-x500-03.txt> 
                A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3     
 
 Apr 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-sorting-00.txt> 
                LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search 
                Results                                                        
 
 May 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-referral-00.txt> 
                Referrals and Knowledge References in LDAP Directories         
 
 Jun 97 Sep 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-tls-02.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):  Extension for 
                Transport Layer Security                                       
 
 Jul 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-dynatt-00.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol:  Dynamic Attributes     
 
 Jul 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3schema-vcard-00.txt> 
                The vCard Schema For Use In LDAPv3                             
 
 Jul 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-replica-req-00.txt> 
                LDAP Replication Requirements                                  
 
 Jul 97 Sep 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-java-api-01.txt> 
                The Java LDAP Application Program Interface                    
 
 Jul 97 Oct 97  <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-repl-info-01.txt> 
                Schema for Replication Information                             
 
 Jul 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-api-ext-00.txt> 
                LDAP API Extensions for Sort and Simple Paged Results          
 
 Jul 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-rwhois-00.txt> 
                Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois) 2.0                           
 
 Jul 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-c-api-00.txt> 
                The C LDAP Application Program Interface                       
 
 Sep 97 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-java-controls-00.txt> 
                Java LDAP Controls                                             

 Request For Comments:

  RFC  Stat Published    Title 
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RFC1781 PS   Mar 95     Using the OSI Directory to Achieve User Friendly Naming
 
RFC1777 DS   Mar 95     Lightweight Directory Access Protocol                  
 
RFC1778 DS   Mar 95     The String Representation of Standard Attribute 
                        Syntaxes                                               
 
RFC1779 DS   Mar 95     A String Representation of Distinguished Names         
 
RFC1804 E    Jun 95     Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory                   
 
RFC1959 PS   Jun 96     An LDAP URL Format                                     
 
RFC1960 PS   Jun 96     A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters         
 
RFC2079 PS   Jan 97     Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class
                        to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)