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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)