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Reported by Chris Weider/Merit Network, Inc.

Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS)

Review of Previous Minutes

There were no modifications to previous minutes.

Liaison Reports

o There was no NADF liaison report.

o WG-NAP has an X.500 focus, and is working on data mangement issues,
privacy and legal issues, and problems with distributed entry and
multiple providers.

o Thomas Lenggenhager has been working on a Data Management for White
Pages paper for organizations wishing to join the X.500 directory.

o OSI-DS has released RFCs 1274 and 1279 as its core work, and is
continuing work on LDAP, IP and network management in the X.500
directory, and will be guiding new schema work in a new schema
working group. They will also be working with the 1993 version of
X.500.

Status Reports

o Whois++Four independent groups are working on servers. There is already a
Whois++ front-end to X.500 developed by Mark Prior of the
University of Adelaide.

o LDAPThe LDAP Internet-Draft is moving on to Proposed Standard status,
and the ISODE Consortium will be publishing the LDAP API.

InterNIC Directory Services

Sri Sataluri gave a talk on the directory services activity of the
InterNIC. The InterNIC is running a number of directories on their X.500
service, and is also running NetFind and Whois.

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X.500 Index DSA Work

Paul Barker presented his work on building special purpose DSAs to help
alleviate the problems encountered when trying to search across multiple
branches of the DIT. His technique is to replicate entries appropriate
to a given search into a special purpose DSA, and restricting the search
to just that DSA. His experimental DSA holds all UK computer science
people.

Progress of Assigned Documents

o FYIT11:hiThesX.500pImplementationaCatalogper is nearly finished and should*
* be out as an
Internet-Draft by the end of August 1993.

o PilotAProjectlCatalogthough there was some discussion as to the necessity *
*of this
document, it was finally decided that it should go ahead and will
be released as an Internet-Draft soon.

o AdvancedTUsageshofiX.500s paper was released as RFC 1491 and FYI 21 in lat*
*e July.

o Whois++T/hX.500iInteroperabilitys paper will be released as an Internet-Dr*
*aft before Houston.

o DirectoryIServicetPolicywHandbookas decided that rather than try to write *
*one all-encompassing
paper on this subject, that the topics covered in the Policy
Handbook outline should be split up across a number of papers.
Thomas Lenggenhager's WG-NAP paper on data management will be
released as one of these papers; Erik Huizer's upcoming paper on
legal issues and privacy will be released through the IETF process
as another of these papers.

Discussion of Directory Services and Privacy Issues

Erik Huizer gave a talk on the results of the research he has done in
the legal status of directory services. The US has essentially no
relevant laws; the ones it does have are designed to protect the
providers of the service rather than the people whose information is
being held. In the European Community (EC), the situation is a
patchwork; each country has different laws, with the strictest being
Germany. The EC has developed a directory services/database policy
which must be placed into law in all EC countries by 1995; this policy
is stricter than most of the current national laws but weaker than the
strongest laws. In any case, export of personal data to countries with
no privacy laws is strictly prohibited (for example, Germany has already
stated that no data can be exported to the US). The laws seem perfect
for centralized databases but place prohibitive restrictions on
distributed global databases such as X.500. Erik's paper will be out by
the end of the year.

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New Document Discussion

o Whois++TImplementationhCatalogis will be released as an Internet-Draft bef*
*ore Houston, written
by Chris Weider.

o UpdatesTtohFYIe13sande14papers will be reviewed for any potential update b*
*y Chris
Weider, and will be modified before Houston if required.

Other Business

Marco Hernandez has a draft of a Guide to Directory Services document
which covers all the major directory service paradigms. This would be
an ideal addition to the FYI series, and will be released as an
Internet-Draft as soon as Marco feels that it is complete.

Attendees

Paul Barker [email protected]
Luc Boulianne [email protected]
Piet Bovenga [email protected]
James Conklin [email protected]
Robert Cooney [email protected]
Peter Deutsch [email protected]
Thomas DeWitt [email protected]
Maria Dimou-Zacharova [email protected]
Terry Gray [email protected]
Marco Hernandez [email protected]
Erik Huizer [email protected]
J. Jensen [email protected]
Thomas Johannsen [email protected]
Peter Jurg [email protected]
Anders Karlsson [email protected]
Michael Khalandovsky [email protected]
Steve Kille [email protected]
Bruno Koechlin
Mark Kosters [email protected]
Arnold Krechel [email protected]
John Kunze [email protected]
Sylvain Langlois [email protected]
Erik Lawaetz [email protected]
Eliot Lear [email protected]
Thomas Lenggenhager [email protected]
Steen Linden [email protected]
Paul Lustgarten [email protected]
John Martin [email protected]
Linda Millington [email protected]
Keith Moore [email protected]
Clifford Neuman [email protected]
Paul-Andre Pays [email protected]

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Geir Pedersen [email protected]
Catherine Pierre-Radenac [email protected]
Mel Pleasant [email protected]
Mark Prior [email protected]
Kenneth Rossen [email protected]
Srinivas Sataluri [email protected]
Rickard Schoultz [email protected]
Karen Sollins [email protected]
Simon Spero [email protected]
Catherine Treca [email protected]
Ton Verschuren [email protected]
Paul Vetter
Lea Viljanen [email protected]
Ruediger Volk [email protected]
Chris Weider [email protected]
Russ Wright [email protected]
Steve Zeber [email protected]

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