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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Linda Millington/Control Data Systems
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- Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS)
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- The IDS Working Group met once at the Danvers IETF on Wednesday, 5
- April.
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- Liaison Reports
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- o Dante Nameflow -- Marko Kaittola
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- The basic services are stable and they have recently recruited a
- new staff member who will take responsibility for directory
- services. Dante has made a policy decision to concentrate their
- efforts on their paying customers. From 1 May there will only be
- one X.500 root machine and this will no longer be covered 24 hours
- per day. A transition is in progress to X.500 1993 which will
- involve two parallel infrastructures and the aim is to remove Quipu
- from the root of the X.500 tree by the end of the year. Full text
- of the report is available from:
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- http://www.dante.net/ moa/IETF/Danvers-IDS-talk.html
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- o PSI -- Sri Sataluri
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- The problems with the c=US X.500 node run by PSI are being resolved
- and EDB updates are now done via FTP.
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- o NADF -- Tim Howes
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- NADF is meeting and piloting -- business as usual.
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- o Long Bud -- Kevin Jordan
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- Routing is mainly at the top of the tree at ADMD and PRMD level.
- The X.400/RFC 822 and RFC 822/X.400 mappings are available under
- o=Internet and are updated daily from the mapping tables maintained
- by SWITCH. Ongoing work is to bring up two more core DSAs, one in
- the US and one in Europe and to replicate the mapping information.
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- o WHOIS++ -- Patrik Faltstrom
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- To date most of the work effort has been put into the
- implementation with the next stage being deployment. In Sweden
- WHOIS++ and X.500 are currently being synchronized as part of the
- K-12 schools service. This involves looking at how a distributed
- directory service works for schools. There will initially be 40
- schools with Internet access. More information will be available
- by the next IETF in Stockholm.
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- X.500 Product Catalogue
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- Chris Apple has converted the current RFC into HTML format and will make
- contact with the group currently looking at converting RFCs into HTML.
- The next stage is to start the updating process. There are currently
- ten new implementors requesting inclusion.
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- Action: Chris to post the first few pages to the list for comment.
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- CCSO Project - Roland Hedberg
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- Roland gave an overview of the work he is currently doing on directory
- services using PH and X.500 with a PH to X.500 gateway. The sorts of
- issues faced have included use of national character sets, name
- resolution, query and response translation, results overflow (if you get
- results from three different sources how do you choose which to return?)
- and ultimately how kind should you be to the user in the respect of user
- expectations and learning yet another query syntax. Future work planned
- includes dealing with multiple trees (e.g., one public, several private)
- and the indexing of organizations.
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- Internet X.500 Directory Schema
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- The paper from the schema task force was submitted to Jon Postel. A
- possible problem was identified with the allocation of OIDs. The
- decision was made to forward this paper to the RFC Editor and a
- delegation would talk to him in Danvers to try and reach agreement.
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- X.500 Production Directory Service
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- This draft (draft-ietf-ids-x500-pds-directory-00.txt) needs to be
- forwarded to Harald for progression.
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- SurfNet Directories Booklet
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- A new version of this booklet is now at the printers. It has been
- extended to include more non-X.500 directories and will be made
- available on-line, details to be announced.
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- NOMENCLATOR Project - Sri Sataluri
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- The core is now stable and more information is being added. A
- demonstration is currently being set up and more volunteers are needed
- for the pilot project. More detailed information can be obtained from:
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- http://www.cs.att.com/csrc/nomen/nomenclator.html
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- Internet X.500 Schema Task Force
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- The current schema will be released in the next few weeks and a
- discussion on a revised schema will be started on the list. The core
- Internet schema will be released as an RFC as a successor to RFC 1274.
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- Review of the Charter
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- The general consensus was that the charter needs to be more focussed and
- that items which had lost their relevance over time should be removed.
- The following work items were reviewed:
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- o X.500 Implementations Catalogue
- Action: Chris, Ken and Todd to provide on-line version of existing
- material plus the 10 new requests by May.
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- o WHOIS++ Implementations Catalogue
- Action: Patrik to circulate in April.
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- o Work on privacy issues will be reviewed in the light of available
- resources to carry out the work. Timescale - decision by next
- IETF.
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- o NOMENCLATOR document will be circulated in May.
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- o CCSO Informational Document
- Action: Roland to circulate in June.
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- o CCSO to X.500 Gateway
- Action: Roland to circulate in June.
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- o Core Internet X.500 Schema (1274 successor)
- Circulated by 1 July.
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- o Evaluation of X.500, WHOIS++ and CCSO with respect to WHIP
- Action: Linda, Sylvain, Chris to circulate X.500 evaluation by
- 1 July.
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- o Revised Charter
- Action: Sri and Linda to circulate for comment. Timescale - ASAP.
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