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Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/31
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Urs Eppenberger/SWITCH and Kevin Jordan/CDC
Minutes of the MHS-DS Working Group (MHSDS)
Agenda
o Revision of the Charter
o Status of the Documents
o Review of the Documents
o AOB
The Minutes of the last MHS-DS meeting in Innsbruck, Austria were
approved.
Charter
The revision and progression of SHKs documents have highest priority.
The Charter will be revised to include the following new items:
o Study the support of X.400 communities without directory access,
and define requirements for tools which:
- Extract info from the DIT into files.
- Upload info from files into DIT.
o Identify additional information possibly needed to facilitate MHS
management (beyond what is already defined in the Internet Drafts)
and define where and how to place it in the DIT. (Note: it may be
the case that no additional information is needed, at least in the
short to medium term). Jim Romaguera volunteered to work on this
item.
o The Group will coordinate a pilot and document the results.
Experience from the piloting activity may necessitate changes in
the MHS-DS specifications. Also, guidelines for deployment and
tuning may result.
Status of the Documents
The following papers have been updated by SHK and were submitted to the
RFC Editor as Internet Drafts:
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1. Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory.
2. Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information
Tree.
3. MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing.
4. Use of the Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822
Addresses.
5. MHS use of the Directory to support distribution lists.
6. A simple profile for MHS use of Directory.
7. Use of the Directory to support routing for RFC 822 and related
protocols.
What needs still to be done:
o ASN.1 definitions in some of the documents.
o Routing algorithm in pseudo code. Perl code in beta status
available from HTA. It's well suited for sanity checking of the
algorithms since the code is executable
o A short overview paper is needed, KEJ volunteered to write it.
o Content conversion issues to be taken out of the routing document
[3] and moved into a separate document.
o Notes on expected performance [3].
o Section on acknowledgements.
o References section.
o Section defining regular expressions (used in routing filters) [3].
o A table of MTA attributes and how they affect routing [3].
The next public release of PP will include the functionality defined in
the minimum profile [6]. Quipu in ISODE 8.0 includes most of the
objects defined in [1]-[7]. PP and Quipu will provide enough
functionality to start a pilot. The restriction of supporting the open
tree only may limit the scale of the pilot.
X-Tel got a contract from the European Commission for the project
EXPLODE. Consequently, most functionality defined in [5] will be
implemented in PP.
Review of the Documents
The documents [1]-[6] were thoroughly reviewed (page by page).
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Editorial changes were pointed out for the documents [1], [2] and [4].
SHK will update the documents. The MHS-DS Working Group proposes to
submit these documents as Experimental Standards. Experience gained
through the pilot may lead to document updates. After gaining
experience via piloting, the documents will be revised, then the next
goal will be to submit them as proposed standards.
[5] This document was discussed quite thoroughly at the meeting. As a
result, additional needed functionality and DL policies were identified.
A new version will be distributed and discussed at the next meeting.
[3] Some of the algorithms are changed.
The location of the open tree under O=Internet was discussed. The
conclusion was to keep the open tree under the root of the DIT root, as
originally proposed. It has been pointed out that [3] defines only a
framework for using X.500 for X.400 routing. MHS communities will need
to specify in more detail how the routing must be organised. It is a
task of the pilot to study these issues.
SHK will update [3] and resubmit it as an Internet Draft.
[6] Did not get significant changes. Since it is tightly coupled with
[3], it will also be updated and resubmitted as an Internet Draft.
[7] Will be discussed at the next meeting.
AOB
Next meeting: 25th IETF, November 16-20, 1992, Washington, D.C.
Action List
Kevin Jordan To revise the Charter.
To write an overview paper.
Urs Eppenberger To write the Minutes.
Harald Alvestrand To provide pseudo code.
Jim Romaguera To write a document on possible additional
objects and attributes needed in the framework
of MHS management.
Steve Hardcastle-Kille To make editorial changes to the documents
[1], [2] and [4] and submit them as
Experimental Standards.
To revise documents [3] and [5] and distribute
them to the list in time for the next meeting.
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To create an additional document on content
conversion and access units.
Everybody to study the revised documents and contribute comments.
Attendees
Ed Albrigo ealbrigo@cos.com
Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
C. Allan Cargille cargille@cs.wisc.edu
James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
Curtis Cox ccox@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil
Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch
Ray Freiwirth 5242391@mcimail.com
Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org
Tony Genovese genovese@nersc.gov
Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov
Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no
Steve Hardcastle-Kille s.kille@isode.com
John Hawthorne johnh@tigger.rl.af.mil
Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl
Takashi Ikemoto tikemoto@xerox.com
Kevin Jordan kej@udev.cdc.com
Todd Kaehler kaehler@zk3.dec.com
Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr
Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch
Eric Nowak nowak@ans.net
Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch
Einar Stefferud stefisoc@nma.com=
Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de
Brien Wheeler blw@mitre.org
Peter Williams p.williams@uk.ac.ucl.cs
Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov
Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com
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