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CURRENT MEETING REPORT
Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS)
Reported by Linda Millington, Control Data Systems, Inc.
The previous meeting's minutes were agreed and there were no changes
or additions to the Agenda.
1. Liaison Reports
It is preferred that liaison reports be circulated to the mailing list prior
to the meetings so that they are accessible and so that there is a record
of them.
AARNET, Nameflow and Long Bud reports will be circulated to the
mailing list. Nomenclator has already been sent to the list.
Patrik Faltstrom gave an overview of the WHOIS++ Pilot. This
currently consists of a number of projects around the world with 54
servers and 280 fetches (unique domains). The top node of the world
allows for searches on WPS information and on URCs. The next version
of the Digger code will be available at the beginning of February and
will provide language support, Unicode support, searches for CDR
blocks and security in the form of Kerberos 4 between both servers and
servers and clients. A NSF project at the University of California is
currently looking at management tools and scaleability. The
expectation is that this project will handle half a million entries.
Further information can be obtained from :
http://www.bunyip.com/products/digger
2. Papers submitted
The ╥Building a Directory Service in the US╙ draft will be progressed
as an informational RFC. A new I-D with a few minor changes to the
text about 1993 Access Control and corrections will be submitted shortly.
After discussion and a show of hands, the Working Group decided that
the directory paper by Peter Jurg and Erik Huizer should be progressed
as a BCP RFC. Harald will take up this matter with the IESG.
3. X.500 Catalogue
The authors are currently waiting for implementor descriptions. A
deadline of December 31, 1995 was agreed for implementor input with
the resulting draft being out by January 15, 1996. There was some
discussion about what to do with the existing but out-of-date
information in the catalogue. It was suggested that this information
should be omitted from the draft.
4. WHOIS++ Catalogue
This has not been updated since Stockholm, but implementors should
send their information to Patrik Faltstrom by December 31. The draft
will be available January 15, 1996.
5. CCSO Nameserver (PH) Architecture
The aim of this draft by Roland Hedberg, Steve Dorner, and Paul Pomes
is to create a more rigourous description of Ph. No functionality will be
added that would break the currently running software. A BNF
description of the protocol is being added. Creating new attributes
within Ph is currently open. Joann Ordille found over 900 attributes in
her research, many of which were language differences and
interpretation differences. A minimal subset of attributes is being put
together with stricter descriptions. A first draft of this paper has been
sent to the registry and the next version will be circulated within the
next few weeks.
6. Ph Directory Server Creation and Support
By March 1, 1996, Roland Hedberg, Joann Ordille and John Noerenberg
will submit a Draft which will give preferred practice and will include
a preferred schema. The Nomenclator Report has information on
schema attribute distribution. The report may be accessedd at the
following Web site:
http://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cd/home/nomen/nomencl
ator.html
Alternatively, email may be sent to joann@research.att.com
More information on Ph can be obtained from the following listserv :
info-ph-dev@listserv.cso.uiuc.edu
The final decision about whether the Ph work will be FYI or Standards
track will be made at the Los Angeles IETF. The current feeling is
towards Standards track because of the perceived importance of having
well-documented directory services in order to obtain an integrated
directory service.
There was some discussion about using the Web as a directory service
and the problem of unstructured data.
7. X.500 Root Naming Context
David Chadwick gave a brief overview of his paper. He is proposing a
phased solution to the problem of managing the Root namespace which
initially uses DISP rather than DOP. Nexor will implement these
changes next year and they will be piloted by Nameflow.
It was decided that discussion on the progress of this paper should
continue until December 31. It will then move to Experimental.
Implementors would then be sought and Harald would approach SC21
with the results. If they still express no interest it would then be
decided whether to move it on to the IETF Standards track.
8. Internet White Pages Service
There was a lot of debate on what exactly user requirements meant and
the resultant agreement was that discussion would be moved to the
mailing list. A more focused discuss wil be created by the use of threads
in subject lines. The chairs will send out a Table of Contents within a
week to get agreement on a structure. The authors would then rearrange
their test into the new structure, then it will be reviewed section by
section on the list.
9. Schema Requirements
Tony Genovese went through the document structure. In addition, the
following items are to be discussed further on the mailing list :
o Structured fields
o Certificate storage
Tony would like more input from the Working Group in addition to some
examples. Harald will provide input on character sets.
10. Privacy Requirements
Barbara Jennings will send a paper she has written on this subject to the
mailing list and the Group will decide if they feel this is a relevent
topic to be pursued.
11. Quality of Directory Service
This discussion was prompted by a Nameflow paper on the quality of
directory services. It was decided that this information should be used
as input to the user requirements draft.
12. Charter Revision
Document timescales and revisions will be incorporated into the
Charter. It was also felt that the Charter ought to make the directory
experience of the Group more visible to the rest of the IETF in the light
of current discussions in the DNS and PKIX areas.
13. Schema Task Force
Pressure of work has forced a number of the original group to relinquish
their responsibilities to this area. Because it was agreed that this was
an important issue, Tim Howes will try and reform the Task Force with
new people.