Integrated Directory Services (ids)
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Charter
Last Modified: 06/05/2000
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
Sri Sataluri <s.sataluri@att.net>
Linda Millington <Linda.Millington@cdc.com>
Applications Area Director(s):
Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
Patrik Faltstrom <paf@cisco.com>
Applications Area Advisor:
Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
Mailing Lists:
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Archive: ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ietf-ids/archive
Description of Working Group:
The Integrated Directory Services (IDS) Working Group is chartered to
facilitate the integration and interoperability of current and future
directories into a unified Internet directory service. This work will
unite directories based on a heterogeneous set of directory
services protocols (X.500, WHOIS++, etc.).
In addition to specifying technical requirements for the integration,
the IDS Working Group will also contribute to the administrative and
maintenance issues of directory service offerings by publishing
guidelines on directory data integrity, maintenance, security, and
privacy and legal issues for users and administrators of directories.
The IDS Working Group will pay special attention to the creation of an
Internet White Pages Directory Service and will sponsor and track
projects to achieve this goal and specifically take steps to facilitate
wide-spread experimentation of the protocols evolving in the ASID
Working Group.
The IDS Working Group will work on applications of directory technology
and will track ongoing applications projects. The IDS Working Group
will assume responsibility for the creation and maintenance of on-line
catalogs of directory services implementations. These catalogs will be
periodically published as Informational RFCs.
The IDS Working Group will take up the unfinished tasks of the WHIP -
White Pages Requirements Working Group - that was constituted at the
Seattle IETF. The WHIP Working Group set out to define the basic
requirements for a Simple Internet White Pages Service.
The IDS Working Group will liaise with the groups working on
development and deployment of the various directory service protocols.
The IDS Working Group is a combined effort of the Applications Area and
the User Services Area of the IETF.
Ongoing Activities:
Track emerging directory service protocols in order to identify the
need for specifying standards for interworking with other service
protocols
Liaise with groups working on deployment and development of directory
services to locate and fix interoperability problems.
Identify unfilled needs of directory service offerers,
administrators, and users.
Catalogs maintained on-line, with occasional publication as RFCs:
RFC due On-line version Name
Dec 95 Jun 95 A Catalog of WHOIS++ Implementations.
-- Patrick Faltstrom (first issue)
Dec 95 Jul 95 The On-line X.500 Directory Implementations Catalog
(on-line version of RFC 1632).
-- Chris Apple and Ken Rossen
Pilot Projects reporting to this group:
The Long Bud Project -- Internet Pilot Project for the
Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of
X.400 Routing (RFC 1802)
Co-ordinator: Kevin Jordan
Lifetime: Jan 94 - Dec 96
The Internet Nomenclator Project
Co-ordinator: Joann Ordille
Lifetime: Jun 95 - Jun 97
The Internet Whois++ Project
Co-ordinator: Patrick Faltstrom
Lifetime: Jun 95 - Jun 97
The Internet X.500 (1993) Directory Project
Co-ordinator: Vincent Berkhout
Lifetime: Dec 95 - Dec 97
The Schema Registry project - identifying and publishing X.500
schema elements used on the Internet
Co-ordinator: Sri Sataluri
Lifetime: November 94 - Nov 96
Goals and Milestones:
JUL 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``Building a Directory in the
US''.
SEP 95 Submit to the IESG, ``Requirements for an Internet White
Pages Services'' as a ... TBD ... document.
OCT 95 Submit to the IESG, ``Building a Directory in the US'' for
consideration as an Informational RFC.
OCT 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``User Requirements for a
Simple Internet White Pages Service''.
OCT 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``Procedures for Formalizing,
Evolving, and Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory
Schema''.
OCT 95 Submit to the IESG, ``Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving,
and Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema'' as a
BCP Document.
NOV 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, the 1995 revision of FYI 11
``A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations''.
NOV 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``Schema Requirements for a
Simple Internet White Pages Service''.
NOV 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``Catalog of available WHOIS++
implementations''.
NOV 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``The CCSO Directory
Services'' with the goal of publising it as an
Informational RFC.
NOV 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``The Internet Nomenclator
Project'' with the goal of publishing it as an Experimental
RFC.
NOV 95 Submit as and Internet-Draft ``The CCSO to X.500 Directory
Services Gateway'' with the goal of publishing it as ...
TBD.
DEC 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``The Core Internet X.500
Schema'', (long overdue successor to RFC1274) with the goal
of publishing it as a ... TBD.
DEC 95 Submit to the IESG, ``A Catalog of available WHOIS++
Implementations'' for publication as an Informational RFC.
DEC 95 Submit to the IESG, the 1995 revision of FYI 11 ``A Revised
Catgalog of Available X.500 Implementations''.
DEC 95 Submit to the IESG, the 1995 revision of FYI 21 ``A Survey
of Advanced Usages of X.500'' for publication as an
Informational RFC.
DEC 95 Submit as an Internet-Draft, ``Evaluation of X.500
Directory with respect to WHIP's Requirements Document''.
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1491 I JUL 93 A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500
RFC1632 I MAY 94 A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
RFC1803 I JUN 95 Recommendations for an X.500 Production Directory
Service
RFC1943 I MAY 96 Building an X.500 Directory Service in the US
RFC2120 E MAR 97 Managing the X.500 Root Naming Context
RFC2116 I APR 97 X.500 Implementations Catalog-96
RFC2148BCP SEP 97 Deployment of the Internet White Pages Service
RFC2219BCP OCT 97 Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services
RFC2218 PS OCT 97 A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service
RFC2259 I JAN 98 Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol (SNQP)
RFC2258 I JAN 98 Internet Nomenclator Project
RFC2378 I SEP 98 The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture
RFC2377 I SEP 98 Naming Plan for Internet Directory-Enabled
Applications