OSI Directory Services (OSIDS)

Charter 

Chair(s)

      Steve Kille:  S.Kille@isode.com

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Description of Working Group

     The OSI-DS group works on issues relating to building an OSI
     Directory Service using X.500 and its deployment on the
     Internet.  Whilst this group is not directly concerned with
     piloting, the focus is practical, and technical work needed as
     a pre-requisite to deployment of an open Directory will be
     considered.

Goals and Milestones

Ongoing   Maintain a Schema for the OSI Directory on the Internet.

Ongoing   Liaisons should be established as appropriate.  In particular:
          RARE WG3, NIST, CCITT/ISO IEC, North American Directory Forum.

Done      Definition of a Technical Framework for Provision of a
          Directory Infrastructure on the Internet, using X.500.  This
          task may later be broken into subtasks.  A series of RFCs will
          be produced.

Done      Study the relationship of the OSI Directory to the Domain Name
          Service.


Internet-Drafts

     ``Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol'',
     07/13/1994, A. Young <draft-ietf-osids-cldap-01.txt>

Request For Comments

RFC 1275   ``Replication Requirements to provide an Internet Directory
             using X.500''

RFC 1276   ``Replication and Distributed Operations extensions to
             provide an Internet Directory using X.500''

RFC 1277   ``Encoding Network Addresses to Support Operation Over
             Non-OSI Lower Layers''

RFC 1278   ``A String Encoding of Presentation Address''

RFC 1279   ``X.500 and Domains''

RFC 1384   ``Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots''

RFC 1430   ``A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory
             Service''

RFC 1431   ``DUA Metrics''

RFC 1484   ``Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming
             (OSI-DS 24 (v1.2))''

RFC 1485   ``A String Representation of Distinguished Names (OSI-DS 23
             (v5))''

RFC 1487   ``X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol''

RFC 1488   ``The X.500 String Representation of Standard Attribute
             Syntaxes''

RFC 1564   ``DSA Metrics (OSI-DS 34 (v3))''

RFC 1608   ``Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory''

RFC 1609   ``Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory''