Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Tim Howes <tim@umich.edu>
 
 Applications Area Director(s): 
     Keith Moore  <moore@cs.utk.edu>
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
 Area Advisor
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
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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  <Filename>
------ ------- ------------------------------------------
 Nov 94 Oct 95  <draft-ietf-asid-x500-url-02.txt> 
                Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold
                Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)                            
 
 Mar 95 Dec 95  <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-format-03.txt> 
                An LDAP URL Format                                             
 
 Jul 95 Jan 96  <draft-ietf-asid-mime-direct-01.txt> 
                A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information                  
 
 Aug 95 Feb 96  <draft-ietf-asid-pgp-02.txt> 
                Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and a Object Class to Hold 
                public PGP keys.                                               
 
 Nov 95 New     <draft-ietf-asid-leafnonleaf-00.txt> 
                Definition of the leaf and nonLeaf Object Classes              
 
 Dec 95 Jan 96  <draft-ietf-asid-string-filter-01.txt> 
                A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters                 
 
 Jan 96 New     <draft-ietf-asid-mime-person-00.txt> 
                An Application/Directory MIME Content-Type White Pages Person 
                Profile                                                        
 
 Jan 96 New     <draft-ietf-asid-mime-centroid-00.txt> 
                An Application/Directory MIME Content-Type Centroid Profile    
 
 Mar 96 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-attributes-00.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol:  Standard and Pilot 
                Attribute Definitions                                          
 
 Mar 96 New     <draft-ietf-asid-mime-ber-00.txt> 
                A MIME Content-Type for ASN.1 PDUs                             
 
 Mar 96 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-mime-00.txt> 
                Lightweight Directory Access Protocol:  MIME-based Transport 
                Mapping                                                        
 
 Mar 96 New     <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-protocol-00.txt> 
                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