CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Chris Weider/Merit Network, Inc. Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) Review of Previous Minutes There were no modifications to previous minutes. Liaison Reports o There was no NADF liaison report. o WG-NAP has an X.500 focus, and is working on data mangement issues, privacy and legal issues, and problems with distributed entry and multiple providers. o Thomas Lenggenhager has been working on a Data Management for White Pages paper for organizations wishing to join the X.500 directory. o OSI-DS has released RFCs 1274 and 1279 as its core work, and is continuing work on LDAP, IP and network management in the X.500 directory, and will be guiding new schema work in a new schema working group. They will also be working with the 1993 version of X.500. Status Reports o Whois++Four independent groups are working on servers. There is already a Whois++ front-end to X.500 developed by Mark Prior of the University of Adelaide. o LDAPThe LDAP Internet-Draft is moving on to Proposed Standard status, and the ISODE Consortium will be publishing the LDAP API. InterNIC Directory Services Sri Sataluri gave a talk on the directory services activity of the InterNIC. The InterNIC is running a number of directories on their X.500 service, and is also running NetFind and Whois. 1 X.500 Index DSA Work Paul Barker presented his work on building special purpose DSAs to help alleviate the problems encountered when trying to search across multiple branches of the DIT. His technique is to replicate entries appropriate to a given search into a special purpose DSA, and restricting the search to just that DSA. His experimental DSA holds all UK computer science people. Progress of Assigned Documents o FYIT11:hiThesX.500pImplementationaCatalogper is nearly finished and should* * be out as an Internet-Draft by the end of August 1993. o PilotAProjectlCatalogthough there was some discussion as to the necessity * *of this document, it was finally decided that it should go ahead and will be released as an Internet-Draft soon. o AdvancedTUsageshofiX.500s paper was released as RFC 1491 and FYI 21 in lat* *e July. o Whois++T/hX.500iInteroperabilitys paper will be released as an Internet-Dr* *aft before Houston. o DirectoryIServicetPolicywHandbookas decided that rather than try to write * *one all-encompassing paper on this subject, that the topics covered in the Policy Handbook outline should be split up across a number of papers. Thomas Lenggenhager's WG-NAP paper on data management will be released as one of these papers; Erik Huizer's upcoming paper on legal issues and privacy will be released through the IETF process as another of these papers. Discussion of Directory Services and Privacy Issues Erik Huizer gave a talk on the results of the research he has done in the legal status of directory services. The US has essentially no relevant laws; the ones it does have are designed to protect the providers of the service rather than the people whose information is being held. In the European Community (EC), the situation is a patchwork; each country has different laws, with the strictest being Germany. The EC has developed a directory services/database policy which must be placed into law in all EC countries by 1995; this policy is stricter than most of the current national laws but weaker than the strongest laws. In any case, export of personal data to countries with no privacy laws is strictly prohibited (for example, Germany has already stated that no data can be exported to the US). The laws seem perfect for centralized databases but place prohibitive restrictions on distributed global databases such as X.500. Erik's paper will be out by the end of the year. 2 New Document Discussion o Whois++TImplementationhCatalogis will be released as an Internet-Draft bef* *ore Houston, written by Chris Weider. o UpdatesTtohFYIe13sande14papers will be reviewed for any potential update b* *y Chris Weider, and will be modified before Houston if required. Other Business Marco Hernandez has a draft of a Guide to Directory Services document which covers all the major directory service paradigms. This would be an ideal addition to the FYI series, and will be released as an Internet-Draft as soon as Marco feels that it is complete. Attendees Paul Barker p.barker@cs.ucl.ac.uk Luc Boulianne lucb@cs.mcgill.ca Piet Bovenga p.bovenga@uci.kun.nl James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu Robert Cooney cooney@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com Thomas DeWitt tdewitt@osi.ncsl.nist.gov Maria Dimou-Zacharova dimou@dxcern.cern.ch Terry Gray gray@cac.washington.edu Marco Hernandez marco@mh-slip.cren.edu Erik Huizer Erik.Huizer@SURFnet.nl J. Jensen jensen@ic.dk Thomas Johannsen thomas@ebzaw1.et.tu-dresden.de Peter Jurg jurg@surfnet.nl Anders Karlsson sak@cdg.chalmers.se Michael Khalandovsky mlk@ftp.com Steve Kille S.Kille@isode.com Bruno Koechlin Mark Kosters markk@internic.net Arnold Krechel krechel@gmd.de John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@exp.edf.fr Erik Lawaetz erik.lawaetz@uni-c.dk Eliot Lear lear@sgi.com Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch Steen Linden steen.linden@uni-c.dk Paul Lustgarten Paul.Lustgarten@att.com John Martin John.Martin@newcastle.ac.uk Linda Millington l.millington@noc.ulcc.ac.uk Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Paul-Andre Pays pays@faugeres.inria.fr 3 Geir Pedersen Geir.Pedersen@usit.uio.no Catherine Pierre-Radenac catherine.pierre-radenac@inria.fr Mel Pleasant pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au Kenneth Rossen kenr@shl.com Srinivas Sataluri sri@internic.net Rickard Schoultz schoultz@admin.kth.se Karen Sollins sollins@lcs.mit.edu Simon Spero simon_spero@unc.edu Catherine Treca Catherine.Treca@dione.urec.fr Ton Verschuren Ton.Verschuren@SURFnet.nl Paul Vetter Lea Viljanen Lea.Viljanen@helsinki.fi Ruediger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov Steve Zeber zeber@stc.nato.int 4