Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid) ---------------------------------------------------- Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Tim Howes Applications Area Director(s): Keith Moore Harald Alvestrand Area Advisor Harald Alvestrand Mailing lists: General Discussion:ietf-asid@umich.edu To Subscribe: ietf-asid-request@umich.edu Archive: ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ietf-asid/archive Description of Working Group: There is a clear need to provide and deploy a well managed Directory Service for the Internet. A so-called White Pages Directory Service providing people and organizational information, is especially long overdue. While the ultimate goal is a general Directory Service for the Internet, this is too ambitious a goal to be tackled by a single working group. Therefore ASID will keep a tight focus on access and synchronization protocols for an Internet White Pages Directory Service. Other related working groups will be formed in the Applications Area that will deal with other aspects of the Internet Directory Service. Currently there are various protocols under development in the Internet that aim to provide such a service: Internet X.500, WHOIS++, NETFIND, CSO, RWHOIS, etc. To allow these services to evolve to a ubiquitous Internet Directory Service, a hybrid system that allows interaction between the various different services is a requirement. The ASID Working Group will define, evolve, and standardize protocols, algorithms and access methods for a White Pages Directory Service on the Internet. The following protocols (some still under development, some completed by other IETF working groups) will be considered by the working group: - Lightweight Directory Acces Protocols (LDAP and Connectionless LDAP) - User Friendly Naming (UFN) and User Friendly Searching (UFS) - The SOLO directory access and searching system - The WHOIS++ directory service The following work items are handled by other groups, and as such are outside the scope of this group. However their results are important to the development of a White Pages Directory Service, and will be taken into account: - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - The UR* definitions - The NETFIND directory service The group will focus on harmonizing, evolving and developing protocols and algorithms that deal with access to and synchronization of Directory Service, both ad hoc and standards-based, with a goal of converging where possible towards a hybrid system that ties together various forms of Directory Service. Clearly, protocol-level integration is only part of the solution. But to keep this group tightly focused, harmonizing directory information and service models will be tackled by other working groups. Goals and Milestones: Jul 94 SOLO revised Internet-Draft published. Jul 94 CLDAP Internet-Draft submitted as Proposed Standard. Done X.500 URL Internet-Draft published. Sep 94 SOLO Internet-Draft submitted as Proposed Standard. Done LDAP URL Internet-Draft published. Sep 94 SOLO URL Internet-Draft published. Sep 94 Stand-alone LDAP Internet-Draft published (LDAP without X.500). Nov 94 Revised versions of all Internet-Drafts. Jan 95 Submit all Internet-Drafts as Proposed Standards. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Nov 94 Oct 95 Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) Mar 95 Dec 95 An LDAP URL Format Jul 95 Jan 96 A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information Aug 95 Feb 96 Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and a Object Class to Hold public PGP keys. Nov 95 New Definition of the leaf and nonLeaf Object Classes Dec 95 Jan 96 A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters Jan 96 New An Application/Directory MIME Content-Type White Pages Person Profile Jan 96 New An Application/Directory MIME Content-Type Centroid Profile Mar 96 New Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Standard and Pilot Attribute Definitions Mar 96 New A MIME Content-Type for ASN.1 PDUs Mar 96 New Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: MIME-based Transport Mapping Mar 96 New Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC1778 DS Mar 95 The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes RFC1777 DS Mar 95 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol RFC1779 DS Mar 95 A String Representation of Distinguished Names RFC1781 PS Mar 95 Using the OSI Directory to Achieve User Friendly Naming RFC1804 E Jun 95 Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory