Network Working Group R. Lang
Request for Comments: 1292 SRI International
FYI: 11 R. Wright
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Editors
January 1992
A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.
Abstract
The goal of this document is to provide information regarding the
availability and capability of implementations of X.500. Comments
and critiques of this document, and new or updated descriptions of
X.500 implementations are welcome. Send them to the Directory
Information Services Infrastructure (DISI) Working Group
(
[email protected]) or to the editors.
1. Introduction
This document catalogs currently available implementations of X.500,
including commercial products and openly available offerings. It
contains descriptions of Directory System Agents (DSA), Directory
User Agents (DUA), and DUA client applications. The latter can
include such applications as browsers, DSA management tools, or
lightweight DUAs that employ an application-level protocol to
communicate with a DUA (which then in turn communicates with a DSA)
to support user service. Section 2 of this document contains a
listing of implementations cross referenced by keyword. This list
will aid in identifying particular implementations that meet your
criteria.
To compile this catalog, the DISI Working Group solicited input from
the X.500 community by surveying several Internet mailing lists,
including:
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
and
[email protected].
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Readers are encouraged to submit comments regarding both the form and
content of this memo. New submissions are always welcome. Please
direct input to the parties as described in the Status of this Memo
section. DISI will produce new versions of this document when a suf-
ficient number of changes have been received. This will be deter-
mined subjectively by the DISI chairperson.
1.1 Purpose
The growth of existing X.500 pilot activities (e.g., White Pages
Pilot Project) and the advent of new pilots (e.g., ARRNet Directory
Services Project, NIST/GSA Pilot Project) are signals that X.500 is a
viable directory service mechanism for the Internet community. A
goal of DISI is to enable the continued growth of X.500 by lowering
the lack-of-information barrier. This document takes one step toward
that goal by providing an easily accessible source of information on
X.500 implementations.
1.2 Scope
This document contains descriptions of either commercially or freely
available X.500 implementations. It does not provide instructions on
how to install, run, or manage these implementations. Because the
needs and computing environments of each organization differ vastly,
no recommendations are given. The descriptions and indices are
provided to make the readers aware of existing options and to enable
more informed choices.
1.3 Disclaimer
Implementation descriptions were written by implementors and vendors,
and not by the members of DISI. Although DISI has worked with the
description authors to ensure readability, no guarantees can be made
regarding the validity of descriptions or the value of said
implementations. Caveat emptor.
1.4 Overview
Section 1 contains introductory information.
Section 2 contains a list of keywords, their definitions, and a cross
reference of the X.500 implementations by these keywords.
Section 3 contains the X.500 implementation descriptions.
Section 4 lists the editors' addresses.
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1.5 Acknowledgments
The creation of this catalog would not have been possible without the
efforts of the description authors and the members of the DISI
Working Group. The editors thank you for your hard work and
constructive feedback. A special thanks is also extended to the
members of the NOCTools Working Group. The "Network Management Tool
Catalog" (RFC-1147) served as a valuable example. Bob Stine and Bob
Enger made key suggestions that enabled us to learn from their
experiences.
The efforts of the editors were sponsored by Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency Contract Number DACA76-89-D-0002 (Field
Operational X.500 Project), and U. S. Department of Energy Contract
Number DE-AC03-76SF00098.
2. Keywords
Keywords are abbreviated attributes of the X.500 implementations.
The list of keywords defined below was derived from the
implementation descriptions themselves. Implementations were indexed
by a keyword either as a result of: 1) explicit, not implied,
reference to a particular capability in the implementation
description text, or 2) input from the implementation description
author(s).
2.1 Keyword Definitions
This section contains keyword definitions. They have been organized
and grouped by functional category. The definitions are ordered
first alphabetically by keyword category, and second alphabetically
by implementation name within keyword category.
2.1.1 Availability
Available via FTAM
Implementation is available using FTAM.
Available via FTP
Implementation is available using FTP.
Commercially Available
This implementation can be purchased.
Free
Available at no charge, although other restrictions may apply.
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Potentially Unavailable
Implementation was not available at the time this document was
written.
Source
Source code is available, potentially at an additional cost.
2.1.2 Implementation Type
API
Implementation comes with an application programmer's interface
(i.e., a set of libraries and include files).
DSA Only
Implementation consists of a DSA only. No DUA is included.
DSA/DUA
Both a DSA and DUA are included in this implementation.
DUA Light Weight Client
Implementation is a DUA-like program that uses a non-OSI proto-
col to satisfy X.500 requests.
DUA Only
Implementation consists of a DUA only. No DSA is included.
2.1.3 Internetworking Environment
CLNP
Implementation uses OSI CLNP.
OSI Transport
Implementation description specifies that OSI transport proto-
cols are used but does not specify which one(s).
RFC-1006
Implementation uses RFC-1006 with TCP/IP transport service.
X.25
Implementation uses OSI X.25.
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2.1.4 Pilot Connectivity
DUA Connectivity
The DUA can be connected to the pilot, and information on any
pilot entry looked up. The DUA is able to display standard
attributes and object classes and those defined in the COSINE
and Internet Schema.
DSA Connectivity
The DSA is connected to the DIT, and information in this DSA is
accessible from any pilot DUA.
2.1.5 Miscellaneous
Included in ISODE
DUAs that are part of ISODE.
Limited Functionality
Survey states that the implementation has some shortcomings or
intended lack of functionality, e.g., omissions were part of the
design to provide an easy-to-use user interface.
Needs ISODE
ISODE is required to compile and/or use this implementation.
X Window System
Implementation uses the X Window System to provide its user
interface.
2.1.5 Operating Environment
3Com
Implementation runs on a 3Com platform.
Apollo
Implementation runs on an Apollo platform.
Bull
Implementation runs on a Bull platform.
Cray
Implementation runs on a Cray.
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DEC Ultrix
Implementation runs under DEC Ultrix.
HP
Implementation runs on an HP platform.
IBM (Non-PC and RISC)
Implementation runs on some type of IBM, which is not a PC or
UNIX workstation.
IBM PC
Implementation runs on a PC.
IBM RISC
Implementation runs on IBM's RISC UNIX workstation.
MIPS
Implementation runs on a MIPS RISC UNIX workstation.
Macintosh
Implementation runs on a Macintosh.
Multiple Vendor Platforms
Implementation runs on more than one hardware platform.
Philips
Implementation runs on a Philips platform.
Siemens
Implementation runs on a Siemens platform.
Sun
Implementation runs on a Sun platform.
UNIX
Implementation runs on a generic UNIX platform.
Unisys
Implementation runs on a Unisys platform.
VMS
Implementation runs under VAX/VMS.
2.2 Implementations Indexed by Keyword
This section contains an index of implementations by keyword. You
can use this list to identify particular implementations that meet
your chosen criteria.
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The index is organized as follows: keywords appear in alphabetical
order; implementations characterized by that keyword are listed
alphabetically as well. Note that a "*" is used to indicate that the
particular implementation, or feature of the implementation, may not
be available at this time.
For formatting purposes, we have used the following abbreviations for
implementation names: UWisc (University of Wisconsin), HP X.500 DDS
(HP X.500 Distributed Directory Software), IS X.500 DSA/DSAM,
DUA(Interactive Systems' X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA).
3Com Available via FTP
X.500 DUA process DE
DISH-VMS 2.0
API DIXIE
Mac-ISODE
Alliance OSI X.500 maX.500
Custos POD
DCE/GDS psiwp
DS-520, DS-521 QUIPU
HP X.500 DDS ud
IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA VMS-ISODE
Mac-ISODE Xdi
OSI Access and Directory XLU
OSI-DSA
OSI-DUA Bull
QUIPU
UCOM X.500 UCOM X.500
VMS-ISODE
VTT X.500 CLNP
WIN/DS
Cray OSI Version 2.0
Apollo DCE/GDS
HP X.500 DDS
VTT X.500 OSI Access and Directory
OSI-DSA
Available via FTAM OSI-DUA
QUIPU
DE VTT X.500
DISH-VMS 2.0 WIN/DS
POD X.500 DUA process
QUIPU Xdi
XLU XT-DUA
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Commercially Available DSA/DUA
Alliance OSI X.500 Alliance OSI X.500
Cray OSI Version 2.0 Cray OSI Version 2.0
DCE/GDS Custos
Directory 500 Directory 500
DS-520, DS-521 DS-520, DS-521
HP X.500 DDS HP X.500 DDS
IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA
OSI Access and Directory Mac-ISODE
OSI-DSA OSI Access and Directory
OSI-DUA QUIPU
UCOM X.500 UCOM X.500
VTT X.500 VMS-ISODE
WIN/DS VTT X.500
X.500 DUA process WIN/DS
XT-DUA
xwp [PSI] DUA Connectivity
Cray DE
DS-521
Cray OSI Version 2.0 OSI Access and Directory
Xdi
DEC Ultrix
DUA Light Weight Client
DCE/GDS
QUIPU *MacDish
UCOM X.500 DIXIE
*xwp [UWisc] maX.500
psiwp
DSA Only ud
OSI-DSA DUA Only
DSA Connectivity DE
DISH-VMS 2.0
DS-520 OSI-DUA
OSI Access and Directory POD
psiwp
SD
X.500 DUA process
Xds
xdua
XLU
XT-DUA
xwp [PSI]
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Free Limited Functionality
xwp [UWisc] Custos
Custos *MacDish
DE POD
DISH-VMS 2.0 psiwp
DIXIE Xds
Mac-ISODE xwp [PSI]
maX.500
POD MIPS
psiwp
QUIPU Alliance OSI X.500
SD OSI Access and Directory
ud QUIPU
VMS-ISODE
Xdi Macintosh
Xds
xdua Alliance OSI X.500
XLU DIXIE
Mac-ISODE
HP *MacDish
maX.500
Alliance OSI X.500 psiwp
HP X.500 DDS QUIPU
QUIPU *UCOM X.500
UCOM X.500
Multiple Vendor Platforms
IBM (Non-PC and RISC)
Alliance OSI X.500
Alliance OSI X.500 Custos
DCE/GDS
IBM PC DS-520, DS-521
IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA
Alliance OSI X.500 POD
*UCOM X.500 QUIPU
*VTT X.500 SD
xwp [UWisc] UCOM X.500
ud
IBM RISC VTT X.500
WIN/DS
DCE/GDS X.500 DUA process
UCOM X.500 xdua
XLU
Included In ISODE XT-DUA
xwp [PSI]
POD xwp [UWisc]
SD
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Needs ISODE RFC-1006
Custos Alliance OSI X.500
DE Cray OSI Version 2.0
DISH-VMS 2.0 Custos
DIXIE DCE/GDS
Mac-ISODE Directory 500
*MacDish DISH-VMS 2.0
POD DS-520, DS-521
psiwp IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA
SD Mac-ISODE
VMS-ISODE OSI Access and Directory
Xdi *OSI-DSA
Xds *OSI-DUA
xdua POD
XLU QUIPU
XT-DUA SD
xwp [UWisc] UCOM X.500
VMS-ISODE
OSI Transport VTT X.500
WIN/DS
Alliance OSI X.500 Xdi
Cray OSI Version 2.0 Xds
Custos XLU
DS-520, DS-521 XT-DUA
IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA
QUIPU Siemens
WIN/DS
XT-DUA *UCOM X.500
Philips
UCOM X.500
Potentially Unavailable
MacDish
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Source UNIX
DCE/GDS Custos
DE DE
DS-520, DS-521 DIXIE
Mac-ISODE DS-520, DS-521
OSI-DSA IS X.500 DSA/DSAM, DUA
OSI-DUA POD
POD QUIPU
psiwp SD
QUIPU UCOM X.500
ud ud
VMS-ISODE WIN/DS
WIN/DS Xdi
Xdi XLU
Xds XT-DUA
xdua xwp [PSI]
XLU xwp [UWisc]
Sun Unisys
Alliance OSI X.500 OSI-DSA
Custos OSI-DUA
Directory 500
DIXIE VMS
QUIPU
UCOM X.500 DISH-VMS 2.0
ud VMS-ISODE
VTT X.500
Xds X Window System
xdua
XT-DUA QUIPU
SD
WIN/DS
X.500 DUA process
Xdi
Xds
xdua
XT-DUA
xwp [PSI]
xwp [UWisc]
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X.25
DCE/GDS
Directory 500
DISH-VMS 2.0
HP X.500 DDS
OSI Access and Directory
OSI-DSA
OSI-DUA
QUIPU
*UCOM X.500
VTT X.500
WIN/DS
X.500 DUA process
Xdi
XT-DUA
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3. Implementation Descriptions
In the following pages you will find descriptions of X.500 implemen-
tations listed in alphabetical order. In the case of name colli-
sions, the name of the responsible organization, in square brackets,
has been used to distinguish the implementations. Note that
throughout this section, the page header reflects the name of the
implementation, not the date of the document. The descriptions fol-
low a common format, as described below:
NAME
The name of the X.500 implementation and the name of the respon-
sible organization. Implementations with a registered trademark
indicate this by appending "(tm)", e.g., GeeWhiz(tm).
LAST MODIFIED
The month and year within which this implementation description
was last modified.
KEYWORDS
A list of the keywords defined in Section 2 that have been used
to cross reference this implementation.
ABSTRACT
A brief description of the application. This section may
optionally contain a list of the pilot projects in which the
application is being used.
COMPLETENESS
A statement of compliance with respect to the 1988 CCITT Recom-
mendations X.500-X.521 [CCITT-88], specifically Section 9 of
X.519, or the 1988 NIST OIW Stable Implementation Agreements
[NIST-88].
INTEROPERABILITY
A list of other DUAs and DSAs with which this implementation can
interoperate.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Describes the level of connectivity it can offer to the pilot
directory service operational on the Internet in North America,
and to pilots co-ordinated by the PARADISE project in Europe.
Levels of connectivity are: Not Tested, None, DUA Connectivity,
and DSA Connectivity.
BUGS
A warning on known problems and/or instructions on how to report
bugs.
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CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
A warning about possible side effects or shortcomings, e.g., a
feature that works on one platform but not another.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
A list of environments in which this implementation can be used,
e.g., RFC-1006 with TCP/IP, TP0 or TP4 with X.25.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
A list of hardware platforms on which this application runs, any
additional boards or processors required, and any special sug-
gested or required configuration options.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
A list of operating systems, window systems, databases, or
unbundled software packages required to run this application.
AVAILABILITY
A statement regarding the availability of the software (free or
commercially available), a description of how to obtain the
software, and (optionally) a statement regarding distribution
conditions and restrictions.
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RFC 1292 Alliance OSI X.500 January 1992
NAME
Alliance OSI(tm) X.500
Touch Communications Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, HP, IBM (Non-PC and RISC),
MIPS, Macintosh, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006,
Sun
ABSTRACT
Alliance OSI includes XDS (API), DUA, DSA and DIB all as separate
components.
Touch's X.500 products have been designed for complete portability to
any operating system or hardware environment. The protocols include
DAP and DSP of the OSI X.500 specification along with the required
XDS, DUA, DSA and DIB components. In addition to X.500, Touch sup-
plies other OSI protocol layers including: ROSE, ACSE, Presentation,
Session and any of the OSI lower layers (Transport, Network along
with RFC-1006). Touch also supplies other application layer proto-
cols such as X.400, FTAM, CMIP (and general network management), etc.
The Alliance OSI X.500 is compliant with the CCITT X.500 1988 Recom-
mendations. The ROSE/ACSE/Presentation/Session stack can be option-
ally provided by Touch.
The DUA may represent a single user, or may represent a group of
users. It may be attached to a given DSA within the same system but
is also capable of invoking operations in Touch's or any other
vendor's compliant DSA on a remote system. The binding operation
requires the user to give a distinguished name and password in order
for the Directory to identify the user. Once an association is esta-
blished the user may invoke the following operations: READ, COMPARE,
ABANDON, LIST, SEARCH, ADD_ENTRY, REMOVE_ENTRY, MODIFY_ENTRY,
MODIFY_RDN.
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Due to the fact that access to the physical disk is in most cases a
blocking operation (synchronous) Touch has separated the database
processing (I/O process) from the DSA protocol entity. This separa-
tion allows the DSA entity to continue processing during the frequent
database accesses from the DSA. The DSA supports all the Directory
operations as specified in the CCITT X.500 specification. Chaining,
Referral and Multicasting are provided and supported in the Alliance
OSI DSA. The DSA supports all the service control options included
in the operation command arguments. Filtering conditions are sup-
ported via the FILTER in the SEARCH operation.
The Alliance OSI X.500 product supports all the NIST defined manda-
tory X.500 and X.400 object classes and attributes.
Alliance OSI X.500 supports all the mandatory Directory attribute
types (and their associated abstract syntaxes) in the NIST Directory
implementation profile. Touch has extended the Directory and allows
users to define private attributes. This means that a user can util-
ize the Alliance OSI Directory for a general purpose, user defined
database activity.
Touch provides a full set of administration and Directory management
facilities.
Touch is in the process of integrating the X.500 product with the
Worldtalk 400 product. Worldtalk 400 is Touch's end user X.400 mes-
sage switch, providing gateways between proprietary mail systems
(SMTP, Microsoft Mail, MHS, cc:mail, etc.) and X.400. X.500 is a key
component for a messaging network.
COMPLETENESS
Strong Authentication is not supported however Simple Authentication
is supported.
INTEROPERABILITY
No interoperability testing has been completed as of yet.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Numerous OEMs are using the Alliance OSI X.500 product in product
development as well as in pilot networks.
BUGS
N/A
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CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Currently the Alliance OSI X.500 DIB has only been validated within a
UNIX File System. The protocol components are portable as is the
interface between the DSA and the DIB.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Alliance OSI X.500 can be utilized over TCP/IP and/or OSI Transport
on LANs and WANs. Currently X.500 has only been verified over OSI,
however other Alliance OSI application layers have been configured
over a RFC-1006 which is available as part of the Alliance OSI pro-
duct line.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Alliance OSI has been ported to numerous platforms ranging from IBM
Mainframes MVS to Apple Macintosh. For UNIX environments Touch has
portations for 386 AT/Bus, SUN-3 and 4, Mips, and HP.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
As stated above, the Alliance OSI product have been ported to
numerous systems. In the UNIX environment the X.500 product exists
on SUN OS 4.0 and greater, Mips RISC OS, Interactive 386 and HP-UX.
AVAILABILITY
Alliance OSI is commercially available from:
Touch Communications Inc.
250 E. Hacienda Ave
Campbell, CA 95008
Sales and Information: (408) 374-2500
FAX: (408) 374-1680
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RFC 1292 Cray OSI Version 2.0 January 1992
NAME
Cray OSI Version 2.0
Cray Research Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
CLNP, Commercially Available, Cray, DSA/DUA, OSI Transport, RFC-1006
ABSTRACT
The product is packaged with the Cray OSI product. It includes a DSA
and DUA capable of OSI or TCP/IP connections. The implementation is
based on the ISODE QUIPU product.
COMPLETENESS
Compliance with CCITT88 plus access control extensions. Strong
authentication not yet implemented.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperates with ISODE QUIPU based implementations.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
The software has been operated in conjunction with the White Pages
Pilot Project.
BUGS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
See ISODE QUIPU limitations.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TCP/IP, TP4
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HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Runs on UNICOS based Cray machines with OS level 7.0 or greater.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Supported for CRAY UNICOS 7.0 or greater.
AVAILABILITY
Commercially available via Cray Research Inc. Sales Representatives.
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RFC 1292 Custos January 1992
NAME
Custos
National Institute of Standards and Technology
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, DSA/DUA, Free, Limited Functionality, Multiple Vendor Platforms,
Requires ISODE, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, Sun, UNIX
ABSTRACT
The implementation consists of a set DUA library routines, a terminal
interface, and a DSA. The implementation was developed in C on Sun 3
workstations under the UNIX operating system. All underlying services
are provided by the ISODE development package. The development pack-
age is also used for encoding and decoding ASN.1 data as well as for
other data manipulation services. Using the ISODE package the imple-
mentation can be run over both OSI and TCP/IP protocols.
The DSA provides full support for both DAP and DSP protocols, confor-
mant with ISO 9594/CCITT X.500 standards. The DIB is maintained using
a locally developed relational database system. The interface to the
database system consists of a set of SQL-like C functions. These are
designed to allow straightforward replacement of the local database
system with a more powerful commercial system. To achieve better per-
formance several options are supported that permit loading of
selected portions of the database into core. When these options are
selected data can be retrieved more quickly from in-core tables; all
modifications to the DIB are directly reflected in the in-core tables
and the database.
COMPLETENESS
To date the Read, Compare, List, Add Entry, and Remove Entry opera-
tions have been implemented and are supported over both DAP and DSP;
aliasing and replication are also supported. The version under
current development (available January '92) includes simple authenti-
cation, access control, and the Search operation. The modify opera-
tions and Abandon are not supported and there is no support for
schema checking.
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INTEROPERABILITY
Have successfully interoperated with QUIPU and OSIWARE over the DAP.
No DSP interoperability testing has been done.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested.
BUGS
Some testing in the near term future will be done to try to identify
these, but presently it's not possible to give an accurate list of
bugs.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
No limitations on file sizes, etc. The only side effects to creating
large files should be in the area of performance. Specifically,
optimization requires loading parts of the DIB in core so greater
memory requirements will be necessary for achieving better perfor-
mance with a large database. Any platform the implementation can be
ported to (generally any platform ISODE can be ported to) should sup-
port all features.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC-1006; TP4/CLNP (SunLink OSI) over 802 and X.25 (SunLink X.25).
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
It has been run on Sun-3, but there are no known reasons why it
should not run on any hardware running the ISODE software.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
It requires UNIX and the ISODE software package. It's been developed
and tested with ISODE version 6.0 and Sun OS version 4.1.1. Uses a
locally developed relational DBMS that should be easily replaceable
with commercially available relational systems.
AVAILABILITY
While under continuing development, availability of the implementa-
tion is limited to organizations making appropriate arrangements with
NIST. The implementation will be publicly available when development
is completed.
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RFC 1292 DCE/GDS January 1992
NAME
DCE/GDS (tm)
Open Software Foundation, Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, CLNP, Commercially Available, DEC Ultrix, DSA/DUA, IBM RISC,
Multiple Vendor Platforms, RFC-1006, Source, X.25
ABSTRACT
DCE/GDS (Distributed Computing Environment/Global Directory Service)
was based on the original Siemens DIR.X product. It supports full DUA
and DSA functions for globally unique identifications and for loca-
tion of objects in the network. It also provides functions to answer
queries (both yellow-page and white-page) about objects and attribute
information. The software implements full DAP and DSP protocols
specified in X.519. An ASN.1 compiler and required ACSE, ROSE,
presentation, session and RFC-1006 protocols implementations are also
included.
The product has been successfully participated in X.500 Cebit Intero-
perability tests at 1990 and 1991 Hanover Fairs. It also intero-
perates with the ISODE QUIPU X.500 implementation.
COMPLETENESS
Compliant with EWOS Agreements which is being harmonized with OIW
Agreements.
Strong authentication in X.509 is not yet implemented. (Password
scheme is currently used.)
Consists of both DUA and DSA implementation according to the 88 CCITT
X.500 and ISO 9594 standard. The X/Open standard XDS (version 1.0)
and XOM (version 2.0) interface libraries are also provided. XDS and
XOM interfaces are also used to access DCE/CDS (Local Cell Directory
Service) transparently. A GDA (Global Directory Agent) serves as the
gateway between the DCE CDS and GDS.
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INTEROPERABILITY
This implementation of DAP and DSP can interoperate with other X.500
implementations from other Cebit demo participants including IBM, HP,
ICL, Bull, Nixdorf, etc. It also interoperates with ISODE QUIPU.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
Problems and bug report email address:
[email protected].
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The software is highly portable without general limitations.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
OSI TP4 with CLNP
OSI TP0, 2 & 4 with X.25
RFC-1006 with TCP/IP
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
DCE/GDS runs on SNI's hardware platforms and is being ported to run
on IBM RS6000, Digital DECstation, etc.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
SINIX (UNIX System V Release 4)
Currently being ported: OSF/1.1, AIX 3.1, Ultrix, etc.
DCE/GDS can use either BSD sockets or XTI/TLI to access the transports.
AVAILABILITY
The source code license of DCE/GDS is commercially available from:
Open Software Foundation, Inc.
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
DISI Working Group [Page 23]
RFC 1292 DCE/GDS January 1992
Please contact:
Jon Gossels
Tel: 617-621-8763
Fax: 617-621-0631
e-mail:
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 24]
RFC 1292 DE January 1992
NAME
DE
COSINE PARADISE
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, DUA Connectivity, DUA Only,
Free, Included in ISODE, Limited Functionality, Needs ISODE, Source,
UNIX
ABSTRACT
DE (Directory Enquiries) is intended to be a simple-to-use interface,
suitable for the naive user, and suitable for running as a public
access dua to provide lowest common denominator access to the Direc-
tory. It is a scrolling interface and will thus run on dumb termi-
nals, even teletypes! The user is asked to fill in up to 4 questions
per query: person's name; department; organization; country. The
prompts are very verbose -- the intention is that the user should not
be able get stuck, and information on how to get into the help system
should always be on the screen. The help screens (of which there are
15) are aimed at the non-technical user. Whilst the outwards appear-
ance of the interface is simple, a lot of attention has being given
to mapping the strings the user enters onto X.500 operations in such
a way that the interface seems to do the "right thing". An important
characteristic is the way the interface tries a series of searches,
gradually relaxing the matching criteria from exact (in some sense),
to good, through to "fuzzy". A considerable amount of configuration
is possible to present the results in locally acceptable formats.
DE was funded by the COSINE PARADISE project, and DE is used as the
PARADISE public access dua. You can test the software by telnet to
128.86.8.56 and logging in as dua -- no password required.
COMPLETENESS
The interface is a querying engine only.
INTEROPERABILITY
DE is built with the ISODE software (release 7.0). Its interopera-
bility relies on the correctness of the Quipu libraries.
DISI Working Group [Page 25]
RFC 1292 DE January 1992
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
The interface is in use as the COSINE Central DUA Service, and is
used by a number of UK institutions as a public access dua (usually
over X.29). It is able to query entries in pilots throughout the
world. It is not able to query for entries which are in organiza-
tions beneath locality entries under country entries. It is not pos-
sible to query for people who do not work for organizations. The
interface only searches for entries of the following type: organiza-
tions, organizational units, people, roles, and rooms.
BUGS
Send bug reports to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
DE tries to cater well for the general case, at the expense of not
dealing with the less typical. The main manifestation of this is
that the current version will not query under localities immediately
under the country level.
It is not possible to display photographs or reproduce sound attri-
butes.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Same as ISODE. ISODE supports TCP/IP, TP0, and X.25.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Should be the same as ISODE in general.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
DE requires the ISODE (current release 7.0) libraries.
AVAILABILITY
DE is openly available as part of ISODE and as part of the COSINE DUA
package. Available by FTAM and FTP, source code freely available.
DISI Working Group [Page 26]
RFC 1292 Directory 500 January 1992
NAME
Directory 500(tm)
OSIware Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, RFC-1006, Sun, X.25
ABSTRACT
Full implementation of the X.500 recommendations. Includes DUA, DSA
& various utilities. Written in ANSI-C / C, and runs on the Unix sys-
tem.
COMPLETENESS
All DAP and DSP operations implemented. Strong authentication not
yet implemented. Schema contains all of X.520, X.521, QUIPU & NYSER-
Net definitions.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interworks with QUIPU, Nist, Retix, ICL, Nixdorf.
BUGS
None
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC-1006 with TCP/IP
TP0 with X.25
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Runs on Sun-3, Sun-4
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RFC 1292 Directory 500 January 1992
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
For SunOS 4.X with Sunlink X.25 6.0
AVAILABILITY
Commercially available from:
OSIware Inc. Tel: +1-604-436-2922
4370 Dominion Street, Suite 200 Fax: +1-604-436-3192
Burnaby, B, Canada V5G 4L7
DISI Working Group [Page 28]
RFC 1292 DISH-VMS 2.0 January 1992
NAME
DISH-VMS 2.0
ACIDO Project
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, DUA Only, Free, Needs ISODE,
RFC-1006, VMS, X.25
ABSTRACT
This Directory User Agent interface was ported to the VMS operating
system using ISODE 6.0. It is part of the results of collaboration
project called ACIDO, between RedIRIS (national network R & D in
Spain) and the "Facultad de Informatica de Barcelona (Universidad
Politecnica de Cataluna)". The main objective of this development
was to provide access to the directory to all those affiliated cen-
tres to the Spanish National R & D network using VMS machines. Any
other use of this software it is no within RedIRIS objectives and
therefore it is not RedIRIS responsibility.
COMPLETENESS
The same as DUA (QUIPU 6.1).
INTEROPERABILITY
QUIPU 6.1
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Used in RedIRIS Directory Pilot Project to access the DSAs (QUIPU).
BUGS
You can report bugs to:
[email protected]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The interface is equivalent to the UNIX one except for the option
-pipe which is not supported.
DISI Working Group [Page 29]
RFC 1292 DISH-VMS 2.0 January 1992
The users can have a quipurc file to configure their work environ-
ments with DISH. This file should reside at the SYS$LOGIN directory
of the user and it should be called "quipurc." (in UNIX it's called
.quipurc)
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC-1006 with TCP/IP, TP0 with X.25
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
VAX
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
VAX/VMS 5.3
VAX PSI 4.2
VMS/ULTRIX Connection 1.2
AVAILABILITY
Executables can be freely distributed for non-commercial use.
Transfer mode binary.
FTP user anonymous sun.iris-dcp.es (130.206.1.2)
FTAM, user anon
TSEL= <0103>H
INT-X25= 21452160234012
IXI= 2043145100102
ISO-CLNS= 39724F1001000000010001000113020600100200 (COSINE P4.1)
File: /isodevms/dishVMS2.BCK.Z compress SAVE_SET file (1.6 Mbytes)
File: /isodevms/lzdcm.exe to uncompress the file
DISI Working Group [Page 30]
RFC 1292 DIXIE January 1992
NAME
DIXIE
University of Michigan
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DUA Light Weight Client, Free, Source, UNIX, Mul-
tiple Vendor Platform, Needs ISODE
ABSTRACT
The DIXIE protocol is used to give X.500 access to platforms that
have only TCP/IP access. The DIXIE server is an intermediate proto-
col server that communicates with Internet clients on one side using
a text-based UDP/TCP protocol and an X.500 DSA on the other side
using DAP. The protocol is fully described in RFC 1246. A subset of
the X.500 DAP is exported to the clients through the DIXIE protocol.
There is a DIXIE API provided in the form of a library of C-callable
routines.
The DIXIE protocol and server are being used by the following
products/projects:
UD, a simple command line white pages DUA for Unix machines (dis-
tributed with the DIXIE server)
maX.500, a white pages DUA for the Macintosh (available from the
same place as the DIXIE server)
Network monitoring of DSAs by our Network Operations Center
Lookup and display of caller identification based on telephone
caller ID (using ISDN).
COMPLETENESS
The DIXIE protocol does not support access to all X.500 features and
operations. All DAP operations except Abandon are supported. Gen-
eral searches (including multiple component searches) are supported.
The DIXIE protocol supports none and simple authentication. A subset
of the service controls are supported.
DISI Working Group [Page 31]
RFC 1292 DIXIE January 1992
INTEROPERABILITY
The current implementation of the DIXIE server works with the QUIPU
DSA and DAP library.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
The DIXIE server has been tested in the Internet and PARADISE pilots.
It provides full DUA Connectivity subject to the limitations dis-
cussed above under completeness.
BUGS
There are no known outstanding bugs. But reports should be sent to
[email protected].
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None, aside from those mentioned above under completeness.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
DIXIE clients use TCP or UDP to communicate with the DIXIE server.
The DIXIE server uses RFC-1006 with TCP/IP to communicate with the
DSA, though other transport mechanisms for DSA communication should
be possible.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The DIXIE server is known to run on Sun 3, Sun 4, and DEC 3100 plat-
forms. It should run on any UNIX platform. The DIXIE library is
known to run on the same platforms, and also on the Macintosh.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The DIXIE server and library is known to run under SunOS 3.5, SunOS
4.1.1, Ultrix 4.1 and 4.2. The DIXIE library also runs on the Macin-
tosh System Software 6 or later.
AVAILABILITY
This software is openly available. It may be obtained by anonymous
FTP from terminator.cc.umich.edu in the directory ~ftp/x500. Documen-
tation on the DIXIE protocol is provided along with the source code,
which includes source for the DIXIE server, DIXIE library, and the UD
client.
DISI Working Group [Page 32]
RFC 1292 DIXIE January 1992
This software was developed at the University of Michigan by Bryan
Beecher, Tim Howes, and Mark Smith of the ITD Research Systems Unix
Group. It is subject to the following copyright.
Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights
reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are per-
mitted provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is
given to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The name of the
University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission. This
software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
DISI Working Group [Page 33]
RFC 1292 DS-520, DS-521 January 1992
NAME
DS-520
DS-521
Retix
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, DUA Connectivity, DSA Connec-
tivity, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, Source,
UNIX
ABSTRACT
DS-520 X.500 Distributed Directory Services for UNIX System V and
DS-521 X.500 Directory User Agent (DUA) for UNIX System V form an
integral part of the Retix OSI Networking Products family. Designed
for systems vendors, public carriers, and other OEMs, DS-520 is a
complete high-performance implementation of X.500 in source code
form, including a DUA, DSA Manager (DSAM), and DSA. DS-521
represents a subset of this product offering. It provides the DUA
portal into the directory, which, for example, meets the needs of
software vendors who plan to provide application packages with X.500
Directory interaction capabilities. Within these two offerings, the
DUA possesses two forms of interface. The first form, the DUA with
User Interface, provides an interactive character-based user inter-
face for users of Directory services. The user agent provides access
to the Directory via basic Directory service requests. The second
form, the DUA with Programmatic Interface provides a standardized
programmatic interface to application programs that must access
Directory information. The interface is conformant to the X/Open
Object Management (XOM) and X/Open Directory Services (XDS) stan-
dards. This component provides all functionality related to Directory
access and general OSI services down to the session layer. The DSAM
provides an interactive character oriented user interface to a Direc-
tory administrator. The DSAM provides management functions either
local to or remote from a DSA. Both the DUA and the DSAM are useful
in the training, management, and manipulation of Directory entries
maintaining operational and user attribute information. The DSA main-
tains Directory database information and provides users the ability
to read/compare, modify, search, and manage entries within the data-
base. It maintains all or fragments of the Directory Information Base
(DIB) and provides abstract service ports for DUAs and DSAs over DAP
and DSP protocols respectively.
DISI Working Group [Page 34]
RFC 1292 DS-520, DS-521 January 1992
COMPLETENESS
DS-520 represents a complete implementation of the 1988 X.500 Recom-
mendations with the exception of strong authentication as outlined in
X.509. It is conformant to NIST, EWOS, and UK GOSIP Directory pro-
files. It provides session through application layer protocol support
and hence incorporates ROSE, ACSE, Presentation, and Session within
its product stack. In addition to including all the attribute types,
syntaxes, and object classes defined in X.520 and X.521, the DS-520
includes support for those specified in the 1988 X.400 Recommendation
X.402, Annex A. Remote on-line management of the DSA is supported by
means of Network Management Forum CMIP.
DS-521 represents a complete implementation of the X/Open Object
Management (OM) and X/Open Directory Services (XDS) standards. It
also incorporates session through application layer protocol support
and thus includes ROSE, ACSE, Presentation, and Session within its
product stack.
INTEROPERABILITY
The DS-520 has been tested to interoperate with Banyan (DAP), CDC
(DSP), IBM, ICL, OSIWare, Nixdorff, Unisys (DSP), Wollongong (DAP),
and 3-Com (DSP).
The DS-521 subset has undergone no separate interoperability testing.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DSA Connectivity provided by the DS-520: The DSA provides complete
support for the X.511 Abstract Service Definition, the directoryAc-
cessAC and the directorySystemAC defined in the X.519 Protocol
Specifications, and the Distributed Directory defined in the X.518
Procedures for the Distributed Directory. It supports all the object
classes, attribute types, and attribute syntaxes defined in X.520 and
X.521. It does not support the Internet DSP however.
DUA Connectivity provided by both the DS-520 and DS-521: The DUA pro-
vides complete support for the X.511 Abstract Service Definition and
the directoryAccessAC defined in the X.519 Protocol Specifications.
The DUA with User Interface supports only a subset of the X.500
attributes and object classes defined in X.520 and X.521. The DUA
with Programmatic Interface, however, does support all the object
classes, attribute types, and attribute syntaxes defined in these two
recommendations.
DISI Working Group [Page 35]
RFC 1292 DS-520, DS-521 January 1992
BUGS
Product Action Requests (PARs) stemming externally from customers and
internally from customer service and quality assurance engineers are
generated and published in the form of weekly reports. A description
and status of these PARs are provided to customers possessing
software maintenance agreements.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
DS-520 and DS-521 are source code products ported to UNIX System V
Release 3 and 4. Makefiles to generate the system are provided for
the AT&T System V, SCO, and Interactive UNIX systems.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
DS-520 and DS-521 offer two main compile time configuration options
and hence internetworking configurations. In the first of these, they
interface to the UNIX System V Transport Library Interface (TLI).
The TLI provides a path between the session layer of a UNIX OSI
application process and an OSI transport provider installed in the
UNIX kernel. The latter transport provider may take the form of a
Retix Unix LAN (LT-610) or WAN (WT-325) transport product. The second
main option utilizes the UNIX System V ACSE/Presentation Library
interface (APLI and the A/P Library), which provides OSI ACSE and
Presentation layer services. The Retix AP-240 Presentation syntax
manager product serves to map the standard Retix Presentation layer
interface to the AT&T APLI. The APLI upper layers services may be
provided by the Retix UL-220 product. UL-220 is the Retix implementa-
tion of the AT&T Open Networking Platform Upper Layer Services module
and includes the A/P library, as well as the OSI ACSE, Presentation,
and Session services.
DS-520 and DS-521 may also run on top of the TCP/IP stack by means of
the Retix MP-120 product. MP-120 is a STREAMS based driver that
implements RFC-1006 and thus allows OSI applications to run over a
network based on the Internet suite of protocols (TCP/IP). Its main
function provides a conversion between the TCP stream to the data
packets required by OSI Transport Class 0 protocol and vice versa. As
part of this process, it converts TCP/IP 32-bit addresses to hex
values for use with OSI applications.
DISI Working Group [Page 36]
RFC 1292 DS-520, DS-521 January 1992
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Being source code products ported to the UNIX System V Release 3 and
4 operating system environment, DS-520 and DS-521 are hardware plat-
form independent. They currently both have sample portations and test
configurations on various Intel 80386 platforms running Unix System V
Release 3 and 4.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Currently, DS-520 and DS-521 include reference implementations for
the AT&T System V Release 4, SCO UNIX System V/386 Version 3.2.2, and
the Interactive UNIX System V/386 Version 2.2 operating systems.
Raima Corporation's db_Vista III Version 3.1 serves as the database
engine for the Directory product.
AVAILABILITY
DS-520 and DS-521 are commercially available from:
Retix
2401 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, California
90404-3563 USA
Sales and Information: 310-828-3400
FAX: 310-828-2255
DISI Working Group [Page 37]
RFC 1292 HP DDS January 1992
NAME
HP X.500 Distributed Directory Software
Hewlett Packard
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, CLNP, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, HP, X.25
ABSTRACT
HP's Distributed Directory Software is a fully distributed Directory
that supports both the DAP and DSP protocols, which were specified in
the 1988 CCITT/ISO X.500 documents. Besides implementing the stan-
dard, we have also put in proprietary access control and replication.
These additional features will be migrated to the standard definition
at the time that they are stable. Users are able to define their own
attributes, objects classes and DIT structure rules.
In order to make this software easy to use a set of menu driven
screens have been provided. There are easy to use data access and
data management screens. For system administrators, these is also a
set for screens that are used to help configure the servers and
manage the schema. Startup and Shutdown utilities are also included.
For application developers an X/Open-APIA XDS API is provided, along
with some helper routines that help reduce development time. The XDS
API includes the following functions:
Bind
Read
Search
Add
Remove
Unbind
Version
A subset of the X/Open-APIA Object Management (XOM) functions are
available thru the interface. The subset are those that are neces-
sary to perform the directory operations.
For bulk operations a batch interface is also available.
DISI Working Group [Page 38]
RFC 1292 HP DDS January 1992
COMPLETENESS
This software implements the 1988 X.500 CCITT/ISO Standard. It fully
supports DAP and DSP, minus strong authentication. By default it
contains all of the X.520 Attributes and the X.521 Syntaxes and
Object Classes. Additionally, the Annex B DIT Structure can be
enforced.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability testing will be undertaken as new X.500 products are
introduced into the market.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
No major ones at this time.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
This is pilot software for organizations who wish to learn about HP's
X.500 offering.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TP0 or TP4 on 802.3 or X.25
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
HP-9000 800 Minicomputer
HP-9000 300 Workstation
with at least 8 M of internal memory
with 9 M of available disk space for the software
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Distributed and Supported for HP-UX version 7.0.
AVAILABILITY
Limited Commercial Availability.
For more information in the U.S. call 1-800-752-0900. Outside of the
U.S. please contact your local HP Sales Office.
DISI Working Group [Page 39]
RFC 1292 INTERACTIVE Systems January 1992
NAME
INTERACTIVE Systems' X.500 DSA/DSAM
INTERACTIVE Systems' X.500 DUA
INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI
Transport, RFC-1006, UNIX
ABSTRACT
The INTERACTIVE Systems X.500 DSA/DSAM and X.500 DUA provide a com-
plete implementation of the OSI X.500 Directory Systems Agent, Direc-
tory Systems Agent Manager, and Directory Services User Agent. These
software packages allow remote access for Directory Systems Agents
and include the following protocols:
- Directory System Protocol (DSP)
- Directory Access Protocol (DAP)
- Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP)
- Remote Operations Service Element (ROSE)
- Association Control Service Element (ACSE)
- Presentation services
- BCS Session services
- DBMS and utilities
- X/Open XDS API (included in the DUA)
These products will be available in Q3 1991 in source code form only.
DISI Working Group [Page 40]
RFC 1292 INTERACTIVE Systems January 1992
COMPLETENESS
These products provide:
- a complete implementation of the X.500 distributed Directory
- a DUA with command line UI and X/Open Directory Services (XDS)
API
- a Multiprocess DSA with integral high performance DBMS
- remote or local CMIP based DSA management
- a DSA manager that provides on-line DSA monitoring, control,
Directory schema manipulation, and DUA functions
- Support for all 1988 X.500, 1988 X.400, and MAP/TOP 3.0 object
types and the capability to add new object types
- Conformance with NIST, EWOS, and U.K. GOSIP X.500 Directory pro-
files
INTEROPERABILITY
Not available at this time.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
Not available at this time.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Not available at this time.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
The INTERACTIVE Systems implementation of X.500 Directory Services
will operate over both RFC-1006 (in TCP/IP Based networks) and over
the Retix Local Area and Wide Area Network services.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
These products are available in source code form only and can be
ported to any UNIX-based computers.
DISI Working Group [Page 41]
RFC 1292 INTERACTIVE Systems January 1992
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
These products operate in the UNIX System V Release 3.2 and System V
Release 4 operating systems.
AVAILABILITY
Both products will be available in Q3 1991. For more information
contact:
INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
1901 North Naper Boulevard
Naperville, IL. 60563-8895
PHONE: (708) 505-9100 extension 232
FAX: (708) 505-9133 Attn.: Jim Hancock
DISI Working Group [Page 42]
RFC 1292 Mac-ISODE January 1992
NAME
Mac-ISODE
Computer Science Department of Massey University
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Available via FTP, DSA/DUA, Free, Macintosh, Needs ISODE, RFC-
1006, Source
ABSTRACT
Mac-ISODE is a reasonably complete port of ISODE version 7.0. It sits
on top of Mac TCP and its development environment is MPW with the GNU
C compiler See entry for QUIPU/ISODE for a detailed description of
the DSA/DUA.
COMPLETENESS
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
INTEROPERABILITY
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested.
BUGS
Macintosh related problems should be sent to
[email protected].
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
No testing of the DSA has been done.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
DISI Working Group [Page 43]
RFC 1292 Mac-ISODE January 1992
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Macintosh, >1Mb memory, System 6.x
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Macintosh, >1Mb memory, System 6.x
AVAILABILITY
The Macintosh part of the package is freely available. Anonymous FTP
from cc-vms1.massey.ac.nz (130.123.1.4)
DISI Working Group [Page 44]
RFC 1292 MacDish January 1992
NAME
MacDish
NASA Ames Research Center
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
DUA Light Weight Client, Limited Functionality, Macintosh, Needs
ISODE, Potentially Unavailable
ABSTRACT
MacIntosh interface which connects to a TCP/IP port attached to dish
running on UNIX or other dish-capable host. Uses a point-and-click
interface to simplify dish access.
COMPLETENESS
No authentication, no modify/delete/add ability.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperates with QUIPU/dish
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Being used in the White Pages Pilot Project.
BUGS
Not complete yet, so there are some bugs (primarily formatting, win-
dow management).
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Not a terribly capable interface.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Pure TCP/IP. Does not require OSI stack support.
DISI Working Group [Page 45]
RFC 1292 MacDish January 1992
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
MacDish runs on Macintosh computers
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
MacTCP and MacOS 6.0.x.
AVAILABILITY
Not yet available. Contact is:
Mylene Marquez
MS 233-18
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
(415) 604-3836
DISI Working Group [Page 46]
RFC 1292 maX.500 January 1992
NAME
maX.500
University of Michigan
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DUA Light Weight Client, Free, Macintosh
ABSTRACT
maX.500 is a Macintosh X.500 directory application useful for
displaying and modifying white pages information about people. It
runs on top of the DIXIE protocol (described in RFC 1246). maX.500
is currently in production release 1.1 within the University of
Michigan and several other places.
Features include the ability to display and modify the following
attributes: title, description, commonName, uid, mail, postalAddress,
homePostalAddress, telephoneNumber, facsimileTelephoneNumber, home-
Phone. Photos can also be displayed. The software also provides
access to the finger protocol. Various preferences are user-
tailorable, including caching.
COMPLETENESS
maX.500 uses the DIXIE protocol to access X.500 and thus is subject
to the same completeness restrictions as DIXIE. It provides Read,
Search, and Modify capabilities.
INTEROPERABILITY
Works with the DIXIE server, which works with the QUIPU DSA and DAP
library.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
It has been tested (in conjunction with the DIXIE server) in both the
Internet and PARADISE pilots.
BUGS
No outstanding bugs are known. But reports should be sent to
[email protected].
DISI Working Group [Page 47]
RFC 1292 maX.500 January 1992
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
maX.500 is heavily oriented to white pages information and thus gen-
eral access to the DIXIE protocol is not provided.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
maX.500 uses the DIXIE protocol and thus TCP to communicate with the
DIXIE server. The Macintosh needs to have MacTCP installed.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Mac Plus or newer machine with one megabyte or more of memory.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Apple System Software 6.0 or above (including System 7), with MacTCP
installed.
AVAILABILITY
This software is openly available. It may be obtained by anonymous
FTP from terminator.cc.umich.edu in the directory ~ftp/x500.
This software was developed at the University of Michigan by Mark
Smith of the ITD Research Systems Unix Group and is subject to the
following copyright.
Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights
reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are per-
mitted provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is
given to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The name of the
University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission. This
software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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RFC 1292 OSI Access and Directory January 1992
NAME
OSI Access and Directory
Control Data Corporation
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Commercially Available, DUA Connectivity, DSA Connectivity, API,
DSA/DUA, OSI CLNP, RFC-1006, X.25, MIPS (under Control Data's EP/IX
OS).
ABSTRACT
OSI Access and Directory includes a QUIPU (version 6.6) based imple-
mentation of Directory with enhancements including:
- TP4 CLNP connectivity
- Directory API based on the X.400 API
- Support for X.400 objects
- Integration with Control Data's X.400 MHS products
- Curses based user interface
- A DUA daemon that provides Directory access for applications
- Enhanced photo attribute support
- ACL enhancements
- DIXIE, DAD and PH.X500 support
COMPLETENESS
As per QUIPU.
INTEROPERABILITY
OSI Access and Directory can interoperate with any QUIPU based Direc-
tory. It has also been informally interoperated with RETIX and
UNISYS implementations.
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PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA Connectivity. DSA Connectivity without InternetDSP support.
BUGS
As per QUIPU.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
As per QUIPU.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As per QUIPU (RFC-1006 with TCP/IP, TP0 with X.25) plus TP4 over
CLNP.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Control Data 4000 systems.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Control Data EP/IX.
AVAILABILITY
Commercially available from:
Control Data Corporation
Computer Products Marketing
4000 Series Networking
HQW10H
P.O. Box 0
Minneapolis, MN 55440-4700
USA
1-800-345-6628
DISI Working Group [Page 50]
RFC 1292 OSI-DSA January 1992
NAME
OSI-DSA
Unisys
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, CLNP, Commercially Available, DSA Only, RFC-1006, Source,
Unisys, X.25
ABSTRACT
OSI-DSA provides a Directory System agent for controlled access to
the OSI Directory Information Base. It provides full support for the
joint ISO/IEC IS-9594 International standard and CCITT X.500 Recom-
mendations 1988 protocols necessary for implementing the Directory
Information Base distributed across a number of DSA's.
The product also includes an Administration User interface program,
to allow a human administrator to construct and maintain the local
Directory Information.
Specific features provided by the Directory System Agent include:
(i) Support of the directoryAccessAC and directorySystemAC
application contexts (i.e. both Directory Access Protocol
(DAP) and Directory System Protocol (DSP)
(ii) Bind Security levels of none and simple unprotected.
(iii) Capability of acting as a first level DSA.
(iv) Support for chaining and multi-casting where necessary in
handling distributed operations. Also supports the return
of referrals.
(v) Support for all attribute types and syntaxes defined in
X.520. Users are also able to define their own attributes
and syntaxes.
(vi) Support for all the object classes and attribute sets
defined in X.521. Users are also able to define their own
object classes and attribute sets. Support is also pro-
vided for a NAME-BINDING specification, for defining the
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Directory Information Tree (DIT) structure.
(vii) An access control mechanism based on the ISO access con-
trol working papers to allow for controlled access and
maintenance of Directory entries and attributes.
(viii) Logging of errors and significant Directory events, as
well as optional trace information.
(ix) The OSI-DSA utilizes the services of ROSE (X.219) and ACSE
(X.217) as defined in clause 8 of X.519
The Administration program provides the following functions
(i) An interface to each of the basic Directory Operations of
Read, Compare, List, Search, Add, Modify, ModifyRDN.
(ii) A Dump/Load utility to dump the information in the local
DIB into an ASCII file and load it again into the DIB from
such a file.
(iii) Knowledge Reference maintenance facilities to Add, Delete
Modify and Read all types of Knowledge References.
(iv) Facilities to control the operation of local Directory
processes.
(v) Control over the level of logging and tracing.
COMPLETENESS
The OSI-DSA provides all functionality defined in, and is fully con-
formant to, the joint ISO/IEC IS-9594 International standard and
CCITT X.500 Recommendations 1988, and the NIST 1988 Stable agreements
on Directory Services.
The only exception is that no support is provided for strong authen-
tication or digital signatures.
Conformance with respect to clause 9 of X.519:
(i) The DSA supports both the directoryAccessAC and directo-
rySystemAC application contexts.
(ii) The DSA is capable of acting as a first-level DSA.
(iii) The chained mode of operation as defined in X.518 is sup-
ported.
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(iv) Bind Security levels of none and simple unprotected are
supported.
(v) All attribute types and syntaxes defined in X.520 are sup-
ported. Users are also able to define their own attributes
and syntaxes.
(vi) All the object classes and attribute sets defined in X.521
are supported. Users are also able to define their own
object classes and attribute sets. Support is also pro-
vided for a NAME-BINDING specification, for defining the
Directory Information Tree (DIT) structure.
(vii) The DSA conforms to all the static requirements defined in
clause 9.2.2 of X.519
(viii) The DSA conforms to all the dynamic requirements defined
in clause 9.2.3 of X.519
INTEROPERABILITY
The product was demonstrated at "Interop 91" in San Jose, October
1991 as part of the OSI Showcase demo involving several vendors'
directory products.
Informal interoperability has been achieved against the ISODE 6.0
QUIPU Directory implementation. Interoperability testing against
other vendors is in progress.
Formal interoperability testing is awaiting the soon to be completed
OSInet X.500 interoperability test suite.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested.
BUGS
Full customer support is provided via your local Unisys Customer Ser-
vices Organization.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Results returned via the OSI-DSA are presently limited to 32K in the
current release, which is in line with the 1988 NIST agreements.
Patches for the Unix V.4 release may be made available on request to
raise this limit to 1Mb.
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The product currently does not provide any support for replication,
although development work is in progress, based on the current ISO
Draft proposal for Replication.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
OSI-DSA runs over all communications environments supported by the
Unisys OSI stack product (see Software platforms). Currently these
support TP0, TP2, TP3 and TP4 over X.25 and TP4 over CLNP on 802.3
and X.25. Support for RFC1006 over TCP/IP is under development.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The product is available on all Unisys Unix 6000 Series machines.
Source code is available for portation to non-Unisys platforms.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The product is distributed and supported for Unix System V.3 and Unix
System V.4.
On Unix V.3, it requires the Unisys Application Presentation Service
OSI stack software (APS), and Unisys Transport Network Service
software (TNS). On Unix V.4, it requires the integrated Unisys OSI
stack software product (STK). These services are accessed via the
ROSLI (ROSE) and APLI (ACSE) programming interfaces which are
currently the subject of standardization efforts by XOpen and Unix
International.
A runtime version of either the Informix or Oracle relational data-
base products is required for the Directory Information Base.
AVAILABILITY
Unisys Unix OSI Directory System Agent is commercially available. For
information on porting to non-Unisys platforms, contact:
Socs Cappas
Australian Centre for Unisys Software
115 Wicks Rd
North Ryde
N.S.W, 2113
Australia
[email protected]
Ph: 61 2 390 1312
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RFC 1292 OSI-DSA January 1992
For any other information contact your local Unisys marketing
representative or:
Unisys Corporation
Corporate Marketing
Mail Drop B-130
Blue Bell, PA 19424
USA
DISI Working Group [Page 55]
RFC 1292 OSI-DUA January 1992
NAME
OSI-DUA
Unisys
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, CLNP, Commercially Available, DUA Only, RFC-1006, Source,
Unisys, X.25
ABSTRACT
OSI-DUA is a Unix C Program interface library. It allows OSI or user
applications to access the services of an X.500 conformant Directory,
by making calls to a library of C routines.
Specific features provided by this program interface library are as
follows:
(i) Connection to any remote X.500 conformant DSA via an OSI
stack, or connection to a co-resident Unisys OSI DSA via
IPC mechanisms.
(ii) All operations defined in the directoryAccessAC applica-
tion context (Bind, UnBind, Read, Compare, Search, List,
AddEntry, ModifyEntry, ModifyRDN, Abandon, DeleteEntry).
(iii) Directory Bind security levels of none and simple unpro-
tected.
(iv) Execution of both blocking and non-blocking operations.
(A non-blocking call to the library will return immedi-
ately, allowing for results to be obtained once the opera-
tion has completed)
(v) Acceptance of multiple concurrent non-blocked operations
on the one user session.
(vi) The DUA utilizes the services of ROSE (X.219) and ACSE
(X.217) as defined in clause 8 of X.519
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COMPLETENESS
When communicating with a Remote DSA the DUA library is fully confor-
mant with the Directory Access Protocol detailed in the X.500
Recommendations/IS-9594 standards.
Conformance with respect to clause 9 of X.519:
(i) All operations defined in the directoryAccessAC applica-
tion context (Bind, UnBind, Read, Compare, Search, List,
AddEntry, ModifyEntry, ModifyRDN, Abandon, DeleteEntry)
are supported.
(ii) Directory Bind security levels of none and simple unpro-
tected are supported.
(iii) The directoryAccessAC application context is supported as
specified in clause 7 of X.519.
(iv) The DUA conforms to the mapping onto used services as de-
fined in clause 8 of X.519.
INTEROPERABILITY
Informal interoperability has been achieved against the ISODE 6.0
QUIPU Directory implementation. Interoperability testing against
other vendors is in progress.
Formal interoperability testing is awaiting the soon to be completed
OSInet X.500 interoperability test suite.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested.
BUGS
Full customer support is provided via your local Unisys Customer Ser-
vices Organisation.
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CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The present OSI-DUA does not provide for the automatic handling of
referrals by the interface library. However interface routines are
provided which allow referrals to be acted upon by the user applica-
tion.
The present OSI-DUA provides a proprietary C programming interface.
An XOpen XDS conformant interface is currently under development.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
OSI-DUA runs over all communications environments supported by the
Unisys OSI stack product (see Software platforms). Currently these
support TP0, TP2, TP3 and TP4 over X.25 and TP4 over CLNP on 802.3
and X.25. Support for RFC1006 over TCP/IP is under development.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The product is currently available on all Unisys Unix 6000 Series
machines.
Source code is available for portation to non-Unisys platforms.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The product is distributed and supported for Unix System V.3 and Unix
System V.4.
On Unix V.3, it requires the Unisys Application Presentation Service
OSI stack software (APS), and Unisys Transport Network Service
software (TNS). On Unix V.4, it requires the integrated Unisys OSI
stack software product (STK). These services are accessed via the
ROSLI (ROSE) and APLI (ACSE) programming interfaces which are
currently the subject of standardization efforts by XOpen and Unix
International.
AVAILABILITY
Unisys Unix OSI Directory System Agent is commercially available. For
information on porting to non-Unisys platforms, contact:
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RFC 1292 OSI-DUA January 1992
Socs Cappas
Australian Centre for Unisys Software
115 Wicks Rd
North Ryde
N.S.W, 2113
Australia
[email protected]
Ph: 61 2 390 1312
For any other information contact your local Unisys marketing
representative or:
Unisys Corporation
Corporate Marketing
Mail Drop B-130
Blue Bell, PA 19424
USA
DISI Working Group [Page 59]
RFC 1292 POD January 1992
NAME
POD
Brunel University
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, DUA Only, Free, Included in
ISODE, Limited Functionality, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE,
RFC-1006, Source, UNIX
ABSTRACT
POD (POpup Directory) is an X.500 DUA interface for the X Window Sys-
tem. POD is a first attempt at a multiwindow directory tool. It
offers a simplified interfaces to the basic X.500 operations of read,
search, list and modify entry.
POD does not provide any sophisticated access to the DSA. Operations
are performed synchronously. The Directory is thus presented as is,
i.e. a hierarchical tree of information, with the user required to
"navigate" the DIT in order to locate required information.
POD is available as part of the ISODE release from version 6.0
onwards.
COMPLETENESS
88 standard: strong authentication not implemented
INTEROPERABILITY
Believed to be compliant, though untested.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA Connectivity: POD is in use in many directory pilots, certainly
including PARADISE and the Internet.
BUGS
Bugs to
[email protected]
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INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TP0 over TCP/IP (as ISODE)
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
MIT X libraries (release 11 version 4)
ISODE/QUIPU libraries (version 6.7 upwards)
AVAILABILITY
Openly available as part of the ISODE release. Sources are freely
available for commercial or non-commercial use from:
src.brunel.ac.uk [134.83.128.3]
Files are:
x500/pod.tar.Z
x500/sd.tar.Z
Contacts:
[email protected] +44 1 895 74000 x 2512
[email protected] +44 1 895 74000 x 2946
[email protected]
Postal Address:
Andrew Findlay
Computer Centre
Brunel University
Cleveland Road,
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
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RFC 1292 psiwp January 1992
NAME
psiwp
Performance Systems International Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DUA Light Weight Client, DUA Only, Free, Limited
Functionality, Macintosh, Needs ISODE, Source
ABSTRACT
psiwp is a Macintosh Front End to White Pages service. It is a
graphical user interface implementing a partial-DUA. It is based on
the ISODE QUIPU X.500 implementation and the Directory Assistance
Protocol (DAP).
psiwp is a Macintosh application tailored specifically to provide
easy access to the Directory for the purposes of performing White
Pages searches. Implements User-Friendly Naming scheme developed in
IETF OSI-DS Working Group.
psiwp implements a Directory Assistance Protocol (DAP) client.
COMPLETENESS
Compliant with X.500 standards to the extent that the QUIPU implemen-
tation is.
INTEROPERABILITY
Successfully interoperates with QUIPU DSAs
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Being used in the White Pages Pilot Project.
BUGS
Support is available (for registered users of psiwp only) from
[email protected].
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CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
psiwp is not a general-purpose DUA. It was designed to be a special-
purpose front-end for performing White Pages searches and thus, in
the interests of simplification, does not provide the full range of
functionality supported by the X.500 standard. A Directory Assistance
server (available as part of the ISODE distribution) must also be run
by sites that do not want to run psiwp against either of the two
White Pages Pilot Project service machines, wp1.psi.net and
wp2.psi.net.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Runs on Macintoshes as a Finder or MultiFinder application.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Runs on Macintoshes that support MacTCP. Requires an ethernet board
or AppleTalk connectivity. At least 1MB of memory is required, and
while psiwp will run on most forms of Macintoshes, a Mac-II is recom-
mended.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Requires MacTCP 1.0 or later, and Finder (or Multifinder) 6.x (Finder
7.0 WILL NOT WORK). Requires ISODE Version 6.8 or later.
AVAILABILITY
psiwp is shareware available for anonymous ftp from uu.psi.com
[136.161.128.3] in pilot/PSIWP.Hqx. A nominal fee is charged upon
registration as a PSIWP user.
Source code to the psiwp application may be licensed from PSI Inc.
as part of PSI's Software Source Distribution (SSD). Email to
[email protected]
will elicit an automatic response containing information on the SSD.
Ordering information may be obtained by sending electronic mail to
[email protected]
or contacting PSI at
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Performance Systems International Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 1100
Reston, Virginia 22091.
1.703.620.6651
1.800.82PSI82 (1.800.827.7482)
1.703.620.4586 (fax)
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RFC 1292 QUIPU January 1992
NAME
QUIPU
ISODE
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, CLNP, DEC Ultrix,
DSA/DUA, Free, HP, MIPS, Macintosh, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI
Transport, RFC-1006, Source, Sun, UNIX, X Window System, X.25
ABSTRACT
QUIPU is part of the ISODE which is an openly available implementa-
tion of the upper layers of OSI. QUIPU provides a X.500 Directory
System Agent (DSA) and a set of Directory User Agents (DUA) aimed at
different terminal types and modes of interaction
QUIPU was first publicly demonstrated at ESPRIT in November 1988.
QUIPU is being used extensively in the European PARADISE project, the
White Pages Pilot Project and the Australian pilot. A QUIPU DSA is
being used at the ROOT node of the Pilot DIT and is being used as
most country level DSAs.
QUIPU provides its own solutions to area not specified by the 1988
standards such as replication and access control.
COMPLETENESS
QUIPU is aligned to the 1988 ISO IS and the NIST OIW Directory Imple-
mentors Guide Version 1, with the following exceptions:
Strong authentication is not implemented.
QUIPU does not enforce the bounds constraints on attributes,
filters or APDU size.
T.61 string formatting characters are not rejected.
If a DN is supplied with no password in an unprotected simple
bind, QUIPU does not always check to see if the DN exists. If
the DSA connected to can say authoritatively the DN does not
exist, the association is rejected. However, if a chain opera-
tion is required to check the DN, the bind IS allowed.
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When comparing attributes of UTCtime syntax, if the seconds field
is omitted, QUIPU does not perform the match correctly (i.e., the
seconds field in the attribute values should be ignored, but are
not).
QUIPU always supplies the optional Chaining argument ``origina-
tor'' even if the CommonArgument ``requestor'' is used.
QUIPU always supplies the optional Chaining argument ``target''
even if the base object in the DAP arguments is the same.
The object class ``without an assigned object identifier'' is not
recognized unless the ``alias'' object class is also present.
Non Specific Subordinate References are never followed by a QUIPU
DSA, but they are passed on correctly to the client if generated.
INTEROPERABILITY
QUIPU has interworked with a number of other implementations, and has
no know problems in such interworking.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
QUIPU is in use in many directory pilots, certainly including PARAD-
ISE and the White Pages Pilot Project.
BUGS
Problems should be reported to
[email protected].
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
QUIPU users TP0 over X.25, CONS and TCP (using RFC-1006) or TP4 over
SunLink OSI.
The DSA knows about the problems of unconnected networks and makes
chain/refer choices based on the network connectivity. Using this an
X.25 only DSA can access data from an Internet only DSA by chaining
operations through a DSA connected to both networks.
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HARDWARE PLATFORMS
[No information provided--Ed.]
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The ISODE and QUIPU runs on native Berkeley (4.2, 4.3) and AT&T Sys-
tem V, in addition to various other UNIX-like operating systems. No
kernel modifications are required.
AVAILABILITY
The ISODE is not proprietary, but it is not in the public domain.
This was necessary to include a "hold harmless" clause in the
release. The upshot of all this is that anyone can get a copy of the
release and do anything they want with it, but no one takes any
responsibility whatsoever for any (mis)use.
DISTRIBUTION SITES
The FTP or FTAM distributions of ISODE-7.0 consists of 3 files. The
source and main ISODE-7.0 distribution is in the file isode-7.tar.Z
which is approximately 4.7MB in size.
LaTeX source for the entire document set can be found in the isode-
7-doc.tar.Z file (3.5MB). A list of documents can be found in the
doc/ directory of the source tree.
A Postscript version of the five volume manual can be found in the
isode-7-ps.tar.Z file (4.7MB).
1. FTP
If you can FTP to the Internet, then use anonymous FTP to
uu.psi.com [136.161.128.3] to retrieve the files in BINARY
mode from the isode/ directory.
2. NIFTP
If you run NIFTP over the public X.25 or over JANET, and are
registered in the NRS at Salford, you can use NIFTP with usen-
rame "guest" and your own name as password, to access
UK.AC.UCL.CS to retrieve the files from the <SRC> directory
3. FTAM on the JANET, IXI or PSS
The sources are available by FTAM from UCL over X.25 using
JANET (DTE 00000511160013),
IXI (DTE 20433450420113) or
PSS (DTE 23421920030013)
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all with TSEL "259" (ASCII encoding). Use the "anon" user-
identity and retrieve the files from the src/ directory. The
file service is provided by the FTAM implementation in ISODE
6.0 or later (IS FTAM).
4. NORTH AMERICA
For mailings in NORTH AMERICA, send a check for 375 US Dollars
to:
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
Moore School
Attn: David J. Farber (ISODE Distribution)
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6314
US
+1 215 898 8560
Specify either (a) 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape, or (b) Sun 1/4-inch
cartridge tape. The tape will be written in tar format and
returned with a documentation set. Do not send tapes or
envelopes. Documentation only is the same price.
5. EUROPE (tape and documentation)
For mailings in EUROPE, send a cheque or bankers draft and a
purchase order for 200 Pounds Sterling to:
Department of Computer Science
Attn: Natalie May/Dawn Bailey
University College London
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT
UK
For information only:
Telephone: +44 71 380 7214
Fax: +44 71 387 1397
Telex: 28722
Internet:
[email protected],
[email protected]
Specify either (a) 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape, or (b) Sun 1/4-inch
cartridge tape. The tape will be written in tar format and
returned with a documentation set. Do not send tapes or
envelopes. Documentation only is the same price.
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7. EUROPE (tape only)
Tapes without hardcopy documentation can be obtained via the
European Forum for Open Systems (EurOpen, formerly known as
EUUG). The ISODE 7.0 distribution is called EurOpenD14.
EurOpen Software Distributions
c/o Frank Kuiper
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
For information only:
Telephone: +31 20 5924121 (or: +31 20 5929333)
Telex: 12571 mactr nl
Telefax: +31 20 5924199
Internet:
[email protected]
Specify one of:
- 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape: 140 Dutch Guilders
- Sun 1/4-inch cartridge tape (QIC-24 format):
200 Dutch Guilders
If you require DHL this is possible and will be billed
through. Note that if you are not a member of EurOpen, then
there is an additional handling fee of 300 Dutch Guilders
(please enclose a copy of your membership or contribution pay-
ment form when ordering). Do not send money, cheques, tapes
or envelopes, you will be invoiced.
8. PACIFIC RIM
For mailings in the Pacific Rim, send a cheque for 300 dollars
Australian to:
Isode Distribution
(Attn Andrew Waugh)
723 Swanston St,
Carlton, VIC 3053
Australia
For information only:
Telephone: +61 3 282 2615
Fax: +61 3 282 2600
Internet:
[email protected]
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RFC 1292 QUIPU January 1992
Please specify the media you desire: (a) 1/2-inch tape at
1600bpi, 3200bpi, or 6250bpi; or (b) Sun 1/4-inch cartridge
tape in either QIC-11, QIC-24 or QIC-150 format; or (c) Exa-
byte 2.3 Gigabyte or 5 Gigabyte format. The tape will be
written in tar format and returned with a documentation set.
Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is the
same price.
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RFC 1292 SD January 1992
NAME
SD
Brunel University
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
DUA Only, Free, Included in ISODE, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs
ISODE, RFC-1006, UNIX, X Window System
ABSTRACT
SD (Screen Directory) is an X.500 DUA interface for character mapped
screens. SD is an early attempt to provide quick, easy and user
friendly access to the Directory. The following directory operations
are supported: read, search and list.
SD does not provide any sophisticated access to the DSA. Operations
are performed synchronously. The Directory is thus presented as is,
i.e. a hierarchical tree of information, with the user required to
"navigate" the DIT in order to locate required information.
SD is available as part of the ISODE release from version 6.0
onwards.
COMPLETENESS
88 standard: strong authentication not implemented
INTEROPERABILITY
Believed to be compliant, though untested.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA Connectivity: SD is in use in many directory pilots, certainly
including PARADISE and the Internet.
BUGS
Bugs to
[email protected]
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RFC 1292 SD January 1992
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TP0 over TCP/IP (as ISODE)
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
BSD curses library
ISODE/QUIPU libraries (version 6.7 upwards)
AVAILABILITY
Openly available as part of the ISODE release. Sources are freely
available for commercial or non-commercial use from:
src.brunel.ac.uk [134.83.128.3]
Files are:
x500/pod.tar.Z
x500/sd.tar.Z
Contacts:
[email protected] +44 1 895 74000 x 2512
[email protected] +44 1 895 74000 x 2946
[email protected]
Postal Address:
Andrew Findlay
Computer Centre
Brunel University
Cleveland Road,
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
DISI Working Group [Page 72]
RFC 1292 UCOM.X 500 January 1992
NAME
UCOM.X 500 (tm)
E3.X
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Bull, Commercially Available, DEC Ultrix, DSA/DUA, HP, IBM PC,
IBM RISC, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Philips, RFC-1006, Siemens, Sun,
UNIX, X.25
ABSTRACT
UCOM.X 500 includes a Directory System Agent (DSA), a directory
access API, and a set of Directory User Agents (DUAs) for different
terminal types. UCOM.X 500 is a commercial product based on PIZARRO,
the research prototype developed at INRIA by Christian Huitema's
team.
Some characteristics of the DSA are:
- The DAP and DSP protocols are provided conformant with the 1988
CCITT X.500 recommendations.
- The DIB is maintained in ASN.1 encoded format in the Unix file
system. Utilities are provided to load and dump the DIB from and
to ASCII text files.
- The DIT structure is held in main memory. Additionally, fre-
quently used attributes may be held in inverted tables in memory
to speed up searches.
- Knowledge management: knowledge on managed domains is stored in
UCOM.X specific attributes of the DSA entries.
- All X.500 (88) as well as some X.400 (88) object classes,
attributes and syntaxes are supported. Users may define their own
classes and attribute types.
- Schema management: object class and attribute definitions are
enforced.
- Simple authentication is provided; strong authentication is not
currently supported.
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RFC 1292 UCOM.X 500 January 1992
- Access control: private mechanisms are provided to allow access
control lists to be specified for parts of the DIT, to control
modifications, and to specify access restrictions on attributes.
The UCOM.X 500 API provides the DAP protocol to applications access-
ing the Directory. It is a synchronous API which automatically
manages referrals. Several DUAs using the API, are available. These
include command line and full screen interfaces for users with ordi-
nary terminals, and an X-Windows user interface (12/91). An X/Open
XDS API will be offered shortly.
UCOM.X 500 is used by French research centers involved in PARADISE, a
COSINE project. A distributed application to control document
transfer in a large French hospital, has been built on the UCOM.X 500
API. It is being used for distributed applications management in the
French Post Office.
COMPLETENESS
UCOM.X 500 conforms to 1988 X.500 series of recommendations, as
specified in paragraph 9 of X.519, with the exception of strong
authentication.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability tests with other implementations, e.g. QUIPU, have
been made in the PARADISE project. UCOM.X 500 is used in the French
PARADISE pilot.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DSA and DUA connectivity to the PARADISE pilots. See caveats.
BUGS
UCOM.X 500 is a commercial product. As such, it is supported and bugs
are fixed when detected. Bug reports can be sent to our support team
via electronic mail.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The DIT structure is stored in main memory which means that the order
of magnitude of the number of objects supported per DSA is 10,000. By
1992 100,000 objects will be supported.
Not all syntaxes defined in the COSINE and Internet Schema are
currently supported, and the DUAs do not display photo attributes.
The Internet DSP is not supported.
DISI Working Group [Page 74]
RFC 1292 UCOM.X 500 January 1992
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
UCOM.X 500 uses RFC-1006 with TCP/IP and TP0 with X.25.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
UCOM.X 500 runs on: Sun 3, Sun 4, IBM RS 6000, Philips P 9000, DEC
machines, Bull DPX 2000, HP 9000/300, Siemens IN 6000 and 386-based
PCs. It can easily be ported to any UNIX machine.
Windows 3 and Macintosh DUAs will be available by Spring 1992.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UCOM.X 500 is portable to any UNIX-like operating system. It has been
ported to: AIX, UNIX System V.3, SUN OS 4, Ultrix, HP-UX, SCO Unix,
Interactive, BOS (Bull Operating System), and SPIX.
The UNIX file system is used to hold the DIB.
AVAILABILITY
UCOM.X is commercially available. Contact:
Dominique Fayet
E3.X
Tour Anjou
33 Quai de Dion Bouton
92 814 Puteaux CEDEX
FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1 40 90 08 15
Fax: (+33) 1 47 74 58 87
Philippe Brun
C=fr;A=atlas;P=e3x;O=e3x;S=Brun
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 75]
RFC 1292 ud January 1992
NAME
ud
University of Michigan
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DUA Light Weight Client, Free, Source, UNIX, Mul-
tiple Vendor Platforms
ABSTRACT
ud is a command line based directory application useful for display-
ing and modifying white pages information about people. It runs on
top of the DIXIE protocol (described in RFC 1246). ud was developed
to run under Unix and is currently in beta release within U-M staff
and a few other places that have heard of it.
Features include the ability to display and modify the following
attributes: title, description, commonName, uid, mail, postalAddress,
homePostalAddress, telephoneNumber, facsimileTelephoneNumber, home-
Phone.
COMPLETENESS
ud uses the DIXIE protocol to access X.500 and thus is subject to the
same completeness restrictions as DIXIE. It provides Read, Search,
and Modify capabilities.
INTEROPERABILITY
Works with the DIXIE server, which works with the QUIPU DSA and DAP
library.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
It has been tested (in conjunction with the DIXIE server) in both the
Internet and PARADISE pilots.
BUGS
No outstanding bugs are known. But reports should be sent to
[email protected].
DISI Working Group [Page 76]
RFC 1292 ud January 1992
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
ud is heavily oriented to white pages information and thus general
access to the DIXIE protocol is not provided.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
ud uses the DIXIE protocol and thus TCP to communicate with the DIXIE
server.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
ud is known to run on Sun 3s, Sun 4s, and Vaxen.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
SunOS 3.5, SunOS 4.1.1, BSD 4.3 Unix.
AVAILABILITY
This software is openly available. It may be obtained by anonymous
FTP from terminator.cc.umich.edu in the directory ~ftp/x500.
This software was developed at the University of Michigan by Bryan
Beecher of the ITD Research Systems Unix Group and is subject to the
following copyright.
Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights
reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are per-
mitted provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is
given to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The name of the
University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission. This
software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
DISI Working Group [Page 77]
RFC 1292 VMS-ISODE January 1992
NAME
VMS-ISODE
Computer Science Department of Massey University
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Available via FTP, DSA/DUA, Free, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, Source,
VMS
ABSTRACT
VMS-ISODE is a reasonably complete port of ISODE version 7.0. It sits
on top of several TCP implementations for VMS (UCX, Multinet, CMU and
Wollongong) and also PSI X.25.
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE for a detailed description of the DSA/DUA.
COMPLETENESS
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
INTEROPERABILITY
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested.
BUGS
VMS related problems should be sent to
[email protected]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
DISI Working Group [Page 78]
RFC 1292 VMS-ISODE January 1992
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
VAX hardware
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
VMS v5.0 or greater
AVAILABILITY
The VMS part of the package is freely available. Anonymous FTP from
cc-vms1.massey.ac.nz (130.123.1.4).
DISI Working Group [Page 79]
RFC 1292 VTT X.500 January 1992
NAME
VTT X.500
Technical Research Centre of Finland
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, Apollo, CLNP, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, IBM PC, Multiple
Vendor Platforms, RFC-1006, Sun, X.25
ABSTRACT
VTT X.500 contains a full distributed DSA and a subroutine call to
dua ( call_dua(parameters)). This subroutine is linked to user's pro-
cess. There are two ways for dua to communicate with our DSA called
dsacvops: a fast communication through shared memory for dua and dsa
in the same computer and a complete OSI-stack for communicating in
DAP-protocol with remote dsa's which can be any implementation of
X.500 dsa, not necessarily dsacvops. DSA communicates with other
dsas through a full OSI-stack with protocol DSP or with a shorter
stack when both dsas are dsacvops-processes. dsacvops contains a
special purpose database DIB. VTT X500 contains caching of read and
search results, access controls (as in Annex F of X.501), object
classes and attribute types as in X.520 and X.521 and simple authen-
tication with unprotected passwords in bind. The network level can be
X.25 or TCP/IP. There are test duas, duacvops, duauser, with a simple
user interface. Certificates for strong authentication are included
to x509dua and x509duacvops. VTT X500 is realized with program
development tools CVOPS and CASN, the code is in C-language and uses
UNIX System V. The code is fairly easy to port to other operating
systems. VTT X500 was made for Smail e-mail product of Nokia Data
Systems.
COMPLETENESS
Complete DAP and DSP of 1988 X.500 Recommendations are implemented.
There are the following omissions: multicasting is not implemented,
strong authentication of calls to dsa (optional signing of DAP and
DSP-calls, strong authentication in bind, security error, security
parameters in common arguments), T61 alternative in CASE IGNORE and
CASE EXACT STRING, Criteria-syntax, TeletexTerminalIdentifier syntax.
DISI Working Group [Page 80]
RFC 1292 VTT X.500 January 1992
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability with ISODE QUIPU 6.0 has been tested, no formal test
suite was used.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested: It should work in principle, but has not been tested.
BUGS
No known bugs at the moment.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Object identifiers for object classes and attribute types can
currently have only the form {2 5 6 x} or {2 5 4 x}, x<256. Changing
the directory schema requires code writing.
INTERWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC-1006 with TCP/IP, TP0 with X.25, TP4 with X.25 available by
agreement.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Sun-3, Sun 386, Apollo, a version of dua for IBM PC will be forthcom-
ing 1991.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Unix System V. Our own database and database management system. Uses
CVOPS protocol development tool.
DISI Working Group [Page 81]
RFC 1292 VTT X.500 January 1992
AVAILABILITY
Commercially available. Contact
Asko Vilavaara
Telecommunications Laboratory
Technical Research Centre of Finland
Otakaati 7 B, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND
Telephone:+358 0 456 5641
FAX: +358 0 455 0115
E-mail:
[email protected]
Henryka Jormakka
Telecommunications Laboratory
Technical Research Centre of Finland
Otakaati 7 B, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND
Telephone:+ 358 0 456 5662
FAX: +358 0 455 0115
E-mail:
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 82]
RFC 1292 WIN/DS January 1992
NAME
WIN(tm)/DS
The Wollongong Group, Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
API, CLNP, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, Multiple Vendor Plat-
forms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, Source, UNIX, X Windows, X.25
ABSTRACT
WIN/DS is an implementation of OSI Directory Services aligned with
the ISO 1988 X.500 IS and NIST Stable Implementors Agreements. WIN/DS
includes both a Directory User Agent (DUA) and a Directory System
Agent (DSA). The product supports all Directory Services operations,
object classes and attributes. It provides support for managing the
Directory Information Tree (DIT) with facilities to control structure
rules and their enforcement. WIN/DS also provides solutions to areas
not specified by the 1988 standards, such as replication and access
control.
COMPLETENESS
Wollongong closely follows the NIST OIW Stable Implementors' Agree-
ments. See also QUIPU.
INTEROPERABILITY
WIN/DS has interoperated with other X.500 implementations at trade
shows (CeBIT and Interop) and at strategic customer sites.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
Requests for product enhancement and modification should be sent to
[email protected].
DISI Working Group [Page 83]
RFC 1292 WIN/DS January 1992
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TCP/IP (RFC 1006)
TP0
TP2
TP4
OSI TP[0/2,4] & TCP/IP dual stack gateway
Ethernet
X.25
Ethernet/X.25 gateway
ES-IS
IS-IS
Interface to OSI transport via the TLI
Interface to the Data Link Layer via the DLPI
STREAMS and DLPI compliant 3rd party network interfaces
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
End-user binary product -
386/i486 with UNIX System V (AT&T, Intel, INTERACTIVE, SCO)
Apple Macintosh with A/UX
Portable source code -
UNIX SVR3, SVR4, BSD
single- or mutli-processor 680x0, 880000, 386/i486
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
See above.
AVAILABILITY
WIN/DS is commercially available from:
The Wollongong Group, Inc.
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto
CA 94303
Sales and Information: :415/962-7100 California
703/847-4500 Wash D
+32-2-718-0311 Belgium
DISI Working Group [Page 84]
RFC 1292 X.500 DUA process January 1992
NAME
X.500 DUA process
3Com Corporation
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
CLNP, Commercially Available, DUA Only, Multiple Vendor Platforms, X
Window System, X.25, 3Com
ABSTRACT
The DUA process runs on 3Com's dual-stack OSI/TCP terminal server,
scheduled to be released in mid-June 1991. It provides Presentation
Address resolution for names, on behalf of the VTP application: when
the user attempts an outgoing connection ("VTP <name>" or "connect
<name>"), <name> gets mapped to its Presentation Address.
The DUA process supports the AddEntry, RemoveEntry, and Search opera-
tions. Via a menu-driven command, the system administrator can con-
figure any of these operations, then send the request to the DSA. He
would use the AddEntry operation to enter a resource name and its
corresponding physical address in the DIB, the DeleteEntry operation
to remove the name and its physical address, and the Search operation
(with "filter" as an option) for a display of all registered names
or, given a name, a display of the name's physical address.
Regarding unbinding from a DSA, the system administrator could use an
UnbindDSA command or set a timer which, once expired, would automati-
cally perform the unbinding. The binding to a DSA, on the other
hand, is transparent, provided the system administrator has set a DSA
address. The binding is triggered by either an outgoing connection
attempt or an operation request sent to the DSA.
The schema supported by the DUA consists of the following sequence of
object classes: Country, Organization, OrganizationalUnit (up to 3
levels of OrganizationalUnits are allowed), ApplicationProcess, and
ApplicationEntity. Their respective attributes are CountryName,
OrganizationName, OrganizationUnitName, CommonName, and Presenta-
tionAddress. The CommonName of the ApplicationEntity is always "vt"
for VTP and is transparent to the system administrator.
DISI Working Group [Page 85]
RFC 1292 X.500 DUA process January 1992
COMPLETENESS
Compliance with the ISO/IEC 9594 standards.
Handling referrals not yet implemented.
Schema supported: Country, Organization, OrganizationalUnit,
ApplicationProcess, and ApplicationEntity.
Authentication not supported.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability with the ISODE QUIPU Directory Service and any DSA
which strictly meets the ISO/IEC 9495 standards.
BUGS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Deleting an entry will fail if the DUA is interacting with a 6.0
based version of QUIPU. This is a bug in QUIPU, and version 7.0
release will have it fixed.
Adding a CountryName is disallowed if the DUA is bound to QUIPU.
This decision was made because to add a country in QUIPU, one needs
to bind as the manager of the DSA holding the root EDB file, and such
information may not always be available to the system administrator.
Also, our binding is done transparently.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
OSI environments with the complete OSI stack, supporting CLNS and
TP4.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
3Com's OSI/TCP CS/2000 and CS/2100.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The "SW/2000-OT Vers 1.0" software runs on 3Com's OSI/TCP CS/2000 and
CS/2100, both stand-alone systems.
AVAILABILITY
The dual-stack OSI/TCP terminal server and its "SW/2000-OT Vers 1.0"
software is available from:
DISI Working Group [Page 86]
RFC 1292 X.500 DUA process January 1992
3Com Corporation
5400 Bayfront Plaza
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Information: Cyndi Jung
(408) 764-5173
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 87]
RFC 1292 Xdi January 1992
NAME
Xdi
Bellcore
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
DUA Only, DUA Connectivity, Available via FTP, Free, Source, Needs
ISODE, X Window System, RFC-1006, CLNP, UNIX, X.25
ABSTRACT
Xdi is a Directory User Agent (DUA) for the X Window System. In
addition to providing a user-friendly interface,it supports Directory
interactions of different levels of complexity. Users can select dif-
ferent window screens to browse, search and modify the Directory.
There are two different search screens for name based search and
attribute based search. It is simple to use for novice users but is
also useful for more advanced users to formulate complex search
filters. Xdi also supports "user-friendly naming" in many cases so
that users are not required to know X.500 naming format.
COMPLETENESS
The Xdi interface does not support accesses to Delete and Add DAP
operations as in the 88 Directory Standard. Read, Search, and most
Modify operations are fully supported. There are no facilities to
modify the RDNs of entries. Strong authentication is not implemented.
INTEROPERABILITY
Believed to be compliant. Only tested against ISODE/QUIPU DSAs.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA Connectivity
BUGS
Send bug reports to
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 88]
RFC 1292 Xdi January 1992
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None known.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Same as ISODE.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
This software has been tested on SUN4. It is expected that the
software is portable to SUN3 and other UNIX machines.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Xdi is expected to run on ISODE (release 6.8 upwards) in UNIX
environment. The 'xdi' directory has been designed to fit directly
into the ISODE source tree. Xdi requires X11R4, the associated Xt
toolkit and Athena widget libraries. Also see the operating environ-
ments of ISODE.
AVAILABILITY
The Xdi software is available via anonymous FTP from
thumper.bellcore.com in file pub/xdi.tar.Z. Source code and execut-
ables can be freely distributed or modified for non-commercial and
non-profit use provided that all copyright notices, permission and
nonwarranty notice included in the software distribution remain
intact.
For further information contactSze-Ying Wuu at
[email protected].
DISI Working Group [Page 89]
RFC 1292 Xds January 1992
NAME
Xds
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Dua only, Free, Limited Functionality, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, Source,
Sun, X-Windows
ABSTRACT
Xds is a DUA designed for users who have little or no knowledge of
X.500. Its intended to be used, for example, by a receptionist who
has to answer such queries as 'Could I have the telephone number of
Andrew who works in Research?'. The display is customized for the
particular organization and the results of the search are presented
in the format of a business card. It is possible to customize the
displayed information.
COMPLETENESS
Xds does not provide user access to all the services provided by
X.500. Instead, Xds uses X.500 services to provide the specific
functions for which it is designed to provide.
Conforms to section 9 of X.519.
INTEROPERABILITY
Only tested against the QUIPU (ISODE) DSA.
No known bugs, but we would be interested in any found. Contact
Andrew Waugh (
[email protected])
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested.
BUGS
No known bugs, but we would be interested in any found. Contact
Andrew Waugh (
[email protected])
DISI Working Group [Page 90]
RFC 1292 Xds January 1992
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The user can only bind as the anonymous user.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Uses the QUIPU (ISODE 7.0) libraries.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Xds runs on Sun SPARCstations. We have not tested Xds on other
hardware platforms, but it should run on other hardware which sup-
ports ISODE-7.0 and X Windows.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Xds requires ISODE-7.0 and X 11 Version 4 with the Athena Widgets.
AVAILABILITY
The Xds software will be distributed free to any non-commercial site
provided
i) they do not pass the code on to any other site (rather they
should ask the other site to contact us directly).
ii) they do not make money out of from the use or sale of the
software.
iii) they inform us of any problems or possible improvements
that they would like to see made.
Commercial sites should contact us.
For further information contact:
Andrew Waugh
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
723 Swanston St
Carlton VIC 3053
AUSTRALIA
Phone +61 3 282 2615
Fax +61 3 282 2600
Email
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 91]
RFC 1292 xdua January 1992
NAME
xdua
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
DUA Only, Free, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, source, Sun,
X Window System
ABSTRACT
The xdua is a DUA designed to be used by DSA managers who have suffi-
cient X.500 knowledge to manipulate the Directory Information Tree
(DIT). It's typical use is to maintain the information stored on a
DSA. The xdua has a Macintosh style interface. This simplifies
browsing the DIT hierarchy. A user can traverse the DIT levels by
using a standard mouse. The xdua supports the X.500 operations of
add, modify, delete, search and show.
COMPLETENESS
Uses the QUIPU (ISODE) dsap interface to provide the X.500 opera-
tions.
Conforms to section 9 of X.519.
INTEROPERABILITY
Only tested against the QUIPU (ISODE) DSA.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
No known bugs, but we would be interested in any found. Contact Brian
May (
[email protected])
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The executable code is large as it uses the X11R4 and DiSh libraries.
The xdua is in the testing phase.
DISI Working Group [Page 92]
RFC 1292 xdua January 1992
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As supported by ISODE.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The xdua runs on Sun SPARCstations and probably on other hardware
which supports ISODE-7.0 and X Windows.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The xdua requires ISODE-7.0 and X 11 Version 4 with the Athena Widg-
ets and the Xt toolkit.
AVAILABILITY
We will distribute it free to any non-commercial site provided
i) they do not pass the code on to any other site (rather they
should ask the other site to contact us directly).
ii) they do not make money out of from the use or sale of the
software.
iii) they inform us of any problems or possible improvements
that they would like to see made.
Commercial sites should contact us directly. For further information
contact:
Brian May
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
723 Swanston St,
Carlton,
Victoria 3053,
Australia
Phone +61 3 282 2613
Fax +61 3 282 2600
Email
[email protected]
DISI Working Group [Page 93]
RFC 1292 XLU January 1992
NAME
XLU
Brunel University
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, DUA Only, Free, Multiple Ven-
dor Platforms, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, Source, UNIX
ABSTRACT
XLU (X LookUp) is an X.500 DUA interface for the X Window System.
Developed from POD, XLU can be configured for many different styles
of interaction. Example configurations are provided for single window
and multiple window (POD-like) use.
XLU implements the `User-Friendly Naming' search strategy and also
has a form-filling search mode. Asynchronous directory operations are
used.
Full add and modify functions are provided, with the ability to
tailor the modify screen to present simple subsets of the available
attribute.
At the time of writing (October 1991) XLU was in beta test.
COMPLETENESS
88 standard: strong authentication not implemented.
INTEROPERABILITY
Believed to be compliant, though untested.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA Connectivity: In use at Brunel and some other sites in the UK and
PARADISE pilots.
BUGS
Bugs to
[email protected].
DISI Working Group [Page 94]
RFC 1292 XLU January 1992
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TP0 over TCP/IP (and others as ISODE).
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
MIT X libraries (release 11 version 4)
ISODE/QUIPU libraries (version 7.0 upwards)
AVAILABILITY
Sources are freely available for commercial or non-commercial use.
Contacts:
[email protected] +44 1 895 274000 x 2512
[email protected] +44 1 895 274000 x 2946
[email protected]
Postal Address:
Andrew Findlay
Computer Centre
Brunel University
Cleveland Road,
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Anonymous FTP:
src.brunel.ac.uk
x500/xlu.tar.Z
DISI Working Group [Page 95]
RFC 1292 XT-DUA January 1992
NAME
XT-DUA
X-Tel Services Limited
LAST MODIFIED
November, 1991
KEYWORDS
DUA Only, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE-7.0, RFC-1006 X Win-
dow System, CLNP, X.25, OSI Transport, Sun, Unix, Commercially Avail-
able.
ABSTRACT
XT-DUA provides a X-Windows based user interface to the X.500 direc-
tory. Both Motif and OpenLook styles are supported.
XT-DUA is available in two forms:
as a browsing tool
as a management tool
Browsing features include:
- History - allowing quick access to previously referenced parts
of the DIT.
- Customizable entry display - allowing subsets of attributes be
displayed when showing an entry.
- User Friendly Name (UFN) based searching
- Hypertext-like navigation.
- Support for applicationEntities eg startup of ftam session.
- User friendly name for attributes.
- Support for photo and audio attributes.
- Attribute value on scanline.
- Intelligent choice of entries to display when moving to a new
location in the DIT.
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Management features include:
- Creation of new entries.
- Modification of existing entries (including RDN) - based on
Quipu EDB format.
- Deletion of entries.
- Friendly editor of modifying Quipu ACLs.
- Rebinding - authenticated and to named DSA.
- Full configuration of DAP request parameters
COMPLETENESS
XT-DUA provides access to all the X.500 DAP operations. Protocol
completeness is as for QUIPU-7.0.
INTEROPERABILITY
As for the QUIPU-7.0.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Full DUA Connectivity to the X.500 Pilot.
BUGS
No known bugs.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As for the QUIPU-7.0.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
As for the QUIPU-7.0.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
As for the QUIPU-7.0, with the addition of X Windows and either Motif
or Open Look.
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AVAILABILITY
XT-DUA is commercial software. It is available via ftp. For more
details contact:
Colin Robbins or Graeme Lunt
X-Tel Services Limited
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
DN: c=GB@o=X-Tel Services Ltd
Telephone: +44 602 412648
Fax: +44 602 790278
E-Mail:
[email protected]
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RFC 1292 xwp [PSI] January 1992
NAME
xwp
Performance Systems International Inc.
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
Commercially Available, DUA Only, Limited Functionality, Multiple
Vendor Platforms, UNIX, X Window System
ABSTRACT
xwp is a graphical user interface tailored specifically to provide
easy access to the Directory for the purposes of performing White
Pages searches. It is currently in use as one of user interfaces
available on wp1.psi.net and wp2.psi.net, the two service machines
for the White Pages Pilot Project. Implements User-Friendly Naming
scheme developed in IETF OSI-DS Working Group.
COMPLETENESS
Compliant with X.500 standards to the extent that the QUIPU implemen-
tation is.
INTEROPERABILITY
Successfully interoperates with QUIPU DSAs.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
Bugs to
[email protected]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
xwp is not a general-purpose DUA. It was designed to be a special-
purpose front-end for performing White Pages searches and thus, in
the interests of simplification, does not provide the full range of
functionality supported by the X.500 standard.
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INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Runs in a BSD UNIX environment supporting the X Windows System.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Should be capable of running in any BSD UNIX environment that sup-
ports the X Windows system. No special hardware required beyond that
required to support X Windows, BSD UNIX and the ISODE.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Tested under SUNOS 3.x and 4.x; should run under most variants of BSD
UNIX. Requires X Windows Release 3 or later.
AVAILABILITY
xwp is a commercial product that may be licensed from PSI Inc. as
part of PSI's Software Source Distribution (SSD). Email to
[email protected]
will elicit an automatic response containing information on the SSD.
Ordering information may be obtained by sending electronic mail to
[email protected]
or contacting PSI at
Performance Systems International Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 1100
Reston, Virginia 22091.
1.703.620.6651
1.800.82PSI82 (1.800.827.7482)
1.703.620.4586 (fax)
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NAME
xwp
University of Wisconsin
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
Free, IBM PC, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, UNIX, X Window
System
ABSTRACT
The xwp program is a simple browser for the QUIPU/X.500 directory.
It uses OSF/Motif and the X Window System to provide a convenient
user interface.
The user interface consists of five different top-level windows: the
main window, the search window, and three option windows. The main
window appears when the program is executed and all others are
reached through its menus. The main window contains Current Loca-
tion, Current Descendents, Descendent Filter, Current Information,
and Directory Status subwindows. The contents of these subwindows
show information about the current location of the browser in the
directory tree. The search window contains Search Area, Search
Filter, and Search Results subwindows.
The mouse pointer may be used in the main window to change the
current location of the browser in the directory tree. We can des-
cend deeper into the tree by clicking the mouse when it points to a
member of the Current Descendents list. Doing this "moves" the
browser to this new (one level deeper) location in the directory
tree. This causes the main window to be updated as follows: (1) the
selected descendent becomes the new Current Location, (2) its descen-
dents are listed in Current Descendents, and (3) its contents are
displayed in Current Information. Any problems and messages from the
directory are displayed in the Directory Status portion of the main
window. To move the browser up the directory tree (i.e. towards the
root), click the mouse pointer on one of the components of the
Current Location. In this way it is possible to move the browser to
any location above its current position (i.e. to any ancestor) in one
mouse click. Doing this causes the main window to be updated as dis-
cussed above. Due to directory-imposed limits, it may not always be
possible to display all the descendents of the current position. In
such cases (and others) it may be useful to impose a filter on the
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descendents to be listed. To do this, position the mouse pointer in
the Descendent Filter box and use the keyboard to type in the desired
filter expression. Typing <RETURN> in this box causes the Current
Descendents list to be updated using the new filter.
xwp was developed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer
Sciences Department. It is used in conjunction with the ECI mail user
agent project. xwp was written by Robert Lazarus, III.
COMPLETENESS
n/a
INTEROPERABILITY
xwp currently operates with ISODE version 6.0
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
xwp should be upgraded to the latest version of ISODE/QUIPU.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
n/a
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
xwp will operate in any environment where Motif, ISODE and QUIPU
operate.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
xwp has been run on IBM PC/RT, soon to run on DecStation 3100.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Berkeley 4.3 and Ultrix 3.1
AVAILABILITY
Openly available in May, 1991. Contact
[email protected] for more
information.
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4. References
[CCITT-88] CCITT, "Data Communications Networks Directory," Recom-
mendations X.500-X.521, Volume VIII - Fascicle VIII.8,
IXth Plenary Assembly, Melbourne, November 1988.
[NIST-88] National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Stable
Implementation Agreements for Open Systems Interconnec-
tion Protocols," Version 2 Edition 1, NIST Special Publi-
cation 500-162, December 1988.
5. Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
6. Authors' Addresses
Ruth Lang
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 859-5608
[email protected]
Russ Wright
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720
(415) 486-6965
[email protected]
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