Concluded WG Directory Information Services Infrastructure (disi)

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WG Name Directory Information Services Infrastructure
Acronym disi
Area User Services Area (usv)
State Concluded
Charter charter-ietf-disi-01 Approved
Document dependencies
Personnel Chair Chris Weider
Area Director April Marine
Mailing list Address disi@merit.edu
To subscribe disi-request@merit.edu
Archive pub/disi-archive@merit.edu

Final Charter for Working Group

The Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure Working
Group is chartered to facilitate the deployment in the Internet of
Directory Services based on implementations of the X.500 standards.
It will facilitate this deployment by producing informational RFCs
intended to serve as a Directory Services ``Administrator's Guide''.
These RFCs will relate the current usage and scope of the X.500
standard and Directory Services in North America and the world, and
will contain information on the procurement, installation, and
operation of various implementations of the X.500 standard. As the
various implementations of the X.500 standard work equally well over
TCP/IP and CLNP, the DISI Working Group shall not mandate specific
implementations or transport protocols.

The DISI Working Group is an offshoot of the OSI Directory Services
Group, and, accordingly, is a combined effort of the OSI Integration
Area and User Services Area of the IETF. The current OSIDS Working
Group was chartered to smooth out technical differences in information
storage schema and difficulties in the interoperability and coherence
of various X.500 implementations. The DISI Group is concerned solely
with expanding the Directory Services infrastructure. As DISI will be
providing infrastructure with an eye towards truly operational status,
DISI will need to form liaisons with COSINE, Paradise, and perhaps the
RARE WG3.

As a final document, the DISI Working Group shall write a Charter for
a new working group concerned with user services, integration,
maintenance, and operations of Directory Services, the Internet
Directory User Services Group.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Jul 1993 Submit to the IESG the `Guide to setting up a DSA' as an informational document.
Mar 1993 Submit to the IESG the `Pilot Projects Catalog' as an informational document.
Mar 1993 Submit to the IESG the `Where do I belong in the Directory' paper as an informational document.
Mar 1993 Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Guide to setting up a DSA'.
Nov 1992 Submit to the IESG the `Advanced Usages' paper as an informational document.
Nov 1992 Submit to the IESG the `How to get registered' paper as an informational document.
Nov 1992 Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Pilot Projects Catalog' paper.
Nov 1992 Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Where do I belong in the Directory' paper.
Jul 1992 Submit as an Internet-Draft the `How to get registered' paper.

Done milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Done Submit an Internet-Draft on `Executive Introduction to X.500'
Done Submit to the IESG the `Technical Overview of Directory Services and X.500' as an informational document.
Done Submit an Internet-Draft on `A Technical Overview of Directory ervices and X.500'.
Done Submit to the IESG the `Executive Introduction to X.500' as an informational document.
Done Submit to the IESG the `Catalog of available X.500 Implementations' as an informational document.
Done Submit an Internet-Draft on `Catalog of available X.500 Implementations'
Done Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Advanced Usages' paper.
Done First IETF Meeting: review and approve the Charter making any changes necessary. Examine needs and resources for the documentation to be produced, using as a first draft a document produced by Chris Weider, Merit, which will be brought to the IETF. Assign writing assignments. Further work will be done electronically.