CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Linda Millington/Control Data Systems Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) Minutes of the last meeting were approved and there were no additions to the agenda. X.500 Schema Task Force The X.500 Schema Task Force is comprised of Ken Rossen, Russ Wright, Tim Howes and Sri Sataluri. They have made the schema repository available on ds.internic.net. The Schema Task Force has taken up all the schema pieces and this document, draft-howes-x500-schema-02.txt, has been approved for publication as an Informational RFC and is currently in the RFC Editor's publication queue. The Task Force now needs input on how to clean up the schema and are ready to handle extensions to be made publicly available. It was requested that someone should test the tables made available for a Quipu release and any feedback should be sent to the Task Force at x500-schema@internic.net. X.500 Production Directory Service This Internet-Draft was discussed on the OSI-DS mailing list to define service levels focussed to bring the current c=US pilot up to speed. It was decided to progress this document as an Informational RFC. There were no comments from the group and the Internet-Draft will be sent to the mailing list for any further comments prior to progression. Informational Privacy Model Background of the work to date was given and it was reiterated that this work should be common to directory services in general and not just X.500. It was suggested that there was a need for guidelines for information privacy to at least make directory administrators aware of the issues. There was a lot of discussion as to the scope and intended audience of this document and whether it would provide a useful service in the light of the laws differing between countries and many organisations having their own policies. Tony Genovese suggested that if the WHIP document was complied with, one would automatically have a minimum set of information. The intended audience was identified as being service providers and administrators with the purpose being to make them aware of the issues involved in information privacy. There is a need to define the purpose of the directory and the problems of replication across boundaries was discussed. Due to time constraints, it was decided to continue the discussion on the mailing list. Erik Huizer asked for people to contribute information on their countries information privacy laws for inclusion in the paper written by himself and Catherine Treca. Erik also announced that a new version of the SURFnet ``Building a Directory Service'' booklet will be available in January/February. The technical chapter is being extended to be non-X.500 specific, covering areas such as WHOIS++ and SOLO. Erik will send a copy of the chapter to the mailing list and would like people with WHOIS++ experience to contribute. The booklet will also be made available on the Web. Liaison Reports o DANTE - Marko Kaittola Marko gave an overview of what DANTE is and what DANTE does. The PARADISE Project finished at the end of April and the PARADISE/Nameflow project is now funded by DANTE shareholders. DANTE outsources services and the University of London Computer Centre is currently running the core X.500 services. DANTE is currently working on phasing out the root DSA and an X.500 (93) transition. The first phase of this transition will involve making it non-quipu specific. It is intended to phase out the root DSA by the end of April 1995. DANTE has an open mailing list for discussion of these issues: punters@nameflow.dante.net. Requests to be added to the list should be sent to: punters-request@nameflow.dante.net. o PSI - Wengyik Yeong The c=US master DSA is now using the IC release software and has been moved to a SPARC10 with 64MB of memory. There has been a marked increase in availability of this service. o NADF - Tim Howes The NADF continues to meet and work is being done to merge information with the Internet pilot. o Long Bud - Kevin Jordan The MHS-DS working group has progressed four documents for using X.500 for mail routing as experimental RFCs and is now declaring victory and closing down. There is also an informational RFC on the pilot project called Long Bud which is concerned with deploying the technology to prove the concepts. The Long Bud piloting activity is now being stepped up and will be reported via IDS. o WHOIS++ - Chris Weider The WHOIS++ standards documents are now finished and experience has been gained. The first public domain server will be available from Bunyip in January and there should be three independent implementations interworking by February. There will be a testbed for the common index for directory services in the next month and there will be a BOF on this at the next IETF. o AARNET - Mark Prior The last PARADISE Report has been circulated to Australian vice-chancellors in an attempt to stimulate some interest. Presentations Viewgraphs of these presentations are available on the InterNIC DS machines. The URLs are: o Harvest - Michael Schwartz A presentation was given on Harvest, an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache and replicate relevant information across the Internet. Harvest can be tailored to digest information in many different formats and can offer custom search services on the Internet. Information on Harvest can be found on http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/. o Nomenclator - Joann Ordille Nomenclator: Descriptive Directory Services for Large Heterogeneous Networks. The goals of Nomenclator are to provide a fast, descriptive directory service for large internets dealing with scale by constraining the search space, meta-data and data caching. It provides one relational interface to a variety of different data sources and provides advice and feedback on unavailability. Nomenclator will be made available as a service through the InterNIC and further information can be obtained via FTP from: grilled.cs.wisc.edu. Volunteers are needed to provide a CCSO site for the pilot as well as volunteers to be a user site. Anyone interested should send e-mail to nomenclator@research.att.com. X.500 Catalog in HTML and maintenance Chris Apple, Todd Bernard and Ken Rossen volunteered to lead this initiative. WHOIS++ Catalog Chris Weider has volunteered to do this. X.500 Projects Catalog The two people working on this have recently changed jobs so there has been little progress. It will be chased up and re-initialised. Action Items Identified o Give feedback to the Schema Task Force on the use of their tables with Quipu. o Send the X.500 Production Directory Service Internet-Draft to the list. o Send contributions for Erik's Privacy paper. o Information Privacy Model: Tim Howes will post what the University of Michigan has done to the list Arlene Getchell will circulate ESNet White Paper. Relevant postings from comp.admin.policy will be sent to the list. o Erik will send the technical chapter of ``Building a Directory Service'' to the list for comment. o WHOIS++ experience is solicited for this booklet. o Volunteers are needed for Nomenclator pilot.