CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Chris Weider/Merit
Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS)
Agenda
o Introduction and welcome
o Review of charter and scope
o Progression of documents
o Comments on RFC 1430
o Status of WHOIS++
o New Documents
o Date of Next Meeting
Introduction and welcome
Events leading to the demise of DISI and the formation of IDS were
reviewed for anyone who might have missed the last meeting.
Review of Charter and Scope
The charter and scope of the IDS WG were reviewed and generally
accepted. IDS will deal with issues common to all types of directory
service (e.g., security/privacy/data maintenance issues), as well as
issues of integration between directory services, and user-oriented
directory service issues (e.g., the implementation surveys).
Progression of Documents
``Advanced Usages of X.500'' - This document has been published as an
Internet-Draft. The authors got about 20 responses.
``X.500 Implementation Survey'' - Progress is being made, but the
authors feel that they have gotten as many responses as they are going
to get from their initial call. The next step is to contact people who
submitted surveys to the original document and others known to have
X.500 implementations and to try to ``encourage'' them directly to
submit.
``X.500 Pilot Project Catalog'' - Still waiting for responses from NADF
and NIST on whether they would like to be included in this document.
April Marine, the document's original author, has agreed to take over
this document again.
Comments on RFC 1430
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There were no comments on RFC 1430.
Status of WHOIS++
Chris Weider and Peter Deutsch gave a quick status report on WHOIS++.
Peter will fill in some holes in the specification in the next couple of
weeks, after which the protocol documents will be submitted as
Internet-Drafts. An initial implementation will be available by April
30, 1993, and will include a server and clients for several platforms.
New Documents
``WHOIS++ and X.500 Interoperability Guide'' - There was general
agreement that although this was a useful document, it was premature to
begin writing it since WHOIS++ has not been officially released. Mark
Prior, who has been writing a WHOIS++ server that accesses X.500, and
Chris Weider agreed to revisit this topic off-line once Mark's server
and the WHOIS++ implementation are further along.
``Catalog of WHOIS++ Implementations'' - Ditto here, though Peter
volunteered to be the contact point for collecting this information.
When there is enough to warrant an RFC, he will put one out.
``Directory Security and Privacy Policy Administrators Guide'' - There
was much discussion on this topic, and many volunteers to help write it.
Among the issues people want to see addressed:
o Security
o Notification of inclusion
o Source of data available to users
o Character Sets
o Can you support the expected load?
o Schema management
o Authentication
o Application Gateways
o Update policy
o Access Control
o Bulk access control
o Good neighbor policy
o Data management techniques
o Organizational ownership of data
o Privacy issues
o Sources of documentation
Since there were so many issues people wanted covered, the title of the
document was changed to `Directory Policy Handbook: A guide to good
directories' The authors include but are not limited to:
o Tim Howes
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o Barbara Jennings
o Marco Hernandez
o Chris Weider
o Mark Prior
o and perhaps Virginia Razmersky
Anyone wishing to contribute to this document as an author is encouraged
to sign on ASAP.
Date of Next Meeting
The next meeting of the IDS Working Group will be at the July IETF in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Attendees
N. Akiko Aizawa akiko@nacsis.ac.jp
Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
Paul Barker p.barker@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Cyrus Chow cchow@ames.arc.nasa.gov
James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
Robert Cooney cooney@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil
Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com
Taso Devetzis devetzis@bellcore.com
Thomas DeWitt tdewitt@osi.ncsl.nist.gov
Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch
Jonathan Fellows jonf@gdstech.grumman.com
Kevin Gamiel kevin.gamiel@concert.net
Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@rc.tudelft.nl
Marco Hernandez marco@mh-slip.cren.edu
Jeroen Houttuin houttuin@rare.nl
Tim Howes tim@umich.edu
Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl
Barbara Jennings bjjenni@sandia.gov
Thomas Johannsen Thomas.Johannsen@ebzaw1.et.tu-dresden.de
Kevin Jordan Kevin.E.Jordan@cdc.com
David Katinsky dmk@pilot.njin.net
Steve Kille S.Kille@isode.com
Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com
Mark Kosters markk@internic.net
Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@exp.edf.fr
Ronald Lanning lanning@netltm.cats.ohiou.edu
David Lovering lovering@bldrdoc.gov
Ignacio Martinez martinez@rediris.es
Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us
Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
Geir Pedersen Geir.Pedersen@usit.uio.no
Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu
Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil
Francois Robitaille francois.robitaille@crim.ca
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Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch
Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com
Chris Shaw cshaw@banyan.com
Karen Shay kshay@cs.cmu.edu
Gregory Sheehan gregory.c.sheehan@att.com
Charlie Smith crsmith@osvi.edu
Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu
Sue Smith smiths.es.net
Larry Snodgrass snodgrass@bitnic.educom.edu
Stuart Stanley stuarts@apertus.com
Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
Les Wibberley lhw24@cas.org
Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov
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