CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Chris Weider/Merit Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) Agenda o Introduction and welcome o Review of charter and scope o Progression of documents o Comments on RFC 1430 o Status of WHOIS++ o New Documents o Date of Next Meeting Introduction and welcome Events leading to the demise of DISI and the formation of IDS were reviewed for anyone who might have missed the last meeting. Review of Charter and Scope The charter and scope of the IDS WG were reviewed and generally accepted. IDS will deal with issues common to all types of directory service (e.g., security/privacy/data maintenance issues), as well as issues of integration between directory services, and user-oriented directory service issues (e.g., the implementation surveys). Progression of Documents ``Advanced Usages of X.500'' - This document has been published as an Internet-Draft. The authors got about 20 responses. ``X.500 Implementation Survey'' - Progress is being made, but the authors feel that they have gotten as many responses as they are going to get from their initial call. The next step is to contact people who submitted surveys to the original document and others known to have X.500 implementations and to try to ``encourage'' them directly to submit. ``X.500 Pilot Project Catalog'' - Still waiting for responses from NADF and NIST on whether they would like to be included in this document. April Marine, the document's original author, has agreed to take over this document again. Comments on RFC 1430 1 There were no comments on RFC 1430. Status of WHOIS++ Chris Weider and Peter Deutsch gave a quick status report on WHOIS++. Peter will fill in some holes in the specification in the next couple of weeks, after which the protocol documents will be submitted as Internet-Drafts. An initial implementation will be available by April 30, 1993, and will include a server and clients for several platforms. New Documents ``WHOIS++ and X.500 Interoperability Guide'' - There was general agreement that although this was a useful document, it was premature to begin writing it since WHOIS++ has not been officially released. Mark Prior, who has been writing a WHOIS++ server that accesses X.500, and Chris Weider agreed to revisit this topic off-line once Mark's server and the WHOIS++ implementation are further along. ``Catalog of WHOIS++ Implementations'' - Ditto here, though Peter volunteered to be the contact point for collecting this information. When there is enough to warrant an RFC, he will put one out. ``Directory Security and Privacy Policy Administrators Guide'' - There was much discussion on this topic, and many volunteers to help write it. Among the issues people want to see addressed: o Security o Notification of inclusion o Source of data available to users o Character Sets o Can you support the expected load? o Schema management o Authentication o Application Gateways o Update policy o Access Control o Bulk access control o Good neighbor policy o Data management techniques o Organizational ownership of data o Privacy issues o Sources of documentation Since there were so many issues people wanted covered, the title of the document was changed to `Directory Policy Handbook: A guide to good directories' The authors include but are not limited to: o Tim Howes 2 o Barbara Jennings o Marco Hernandez o Chris Weider o Mark Prior o and perhaps Virginia Razmersky Anyone wishing to contribute to this document as an author is encouraged to sign on ASAP. Date of Next Meeting The next meeting of the IDS Working Group will be at the July IETF in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Attendees N. Akiko Aizawa akiko@nacsis.ac.jp Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no Paul Barker p.barker@cs.ucl.ac.uk Cyrus Chow cchow@ames.arc.nasa.gov James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu Robert Cooney cooney@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com Taso Devetzis devetzis@bellcore.com Thomas DeWitt tdewitt@osi.ncsl.nist.gov Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch Jonathan Fellows jonf@gdstech.grumman.com Kevin Gamiel kevin.gamiel@concert.net Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@rc.tudelft.nl Marco Hernandez marco@mh-slip.cren.edu Jeroen Houttuin houttuin@rare.nl Tim Howes tim@umich.edu Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl Barbara Jennings bjjenni@sandia.gov Thomas Johannsen Thomas.Johannsen@ebzaw1.et.tu-dresden.de Kevin Jordan Kevin.E.Jordan@cdc.com David Katinsky dmk@pilot.njin.net Steve Kille S.Kille@isode.com Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com Mark Kosters markk@internic.net Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@exp.edf.fr Ronald Lanning lanning@netltm.cats.ohiou.edu David Lovering lovering@bldrdoc.gov Ignacio Martinez martinez@rediris.es Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Geir Pedersen Geir.Pedersen@usit.uio.no Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil Francois Robitaille francois.robitaille@crim.ca 3 Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com Chris Shaw cshaw@banyan.com Karen Shay kshay@cs.cmu.edu Gregory Sheehan gregory.c.sheehan@att.com Charlie Smith crsmith@osvi.edu Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Sue Smith smiths.es.net Larry Snodgrass snodgrass@bitnic.educom.edu Stuart Stanley stuarts@apertus.com Janet Vratny janet@apple.com Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Les Wibberley lhw24@cas.org Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov 4