Directory Information Services Infrastructure (disi)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 1998-04-07

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     A Anantha  <cweider@microsoft.com>

 User Services Area Director(s):
     April Marine  <april.marine@nominum.com>

 User Services Area Advisor:
     April Marine  <april.marine@nominum.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:disi@merit.edu
     To Subscribe:      disi-request@merit.edu
     Archive:           pub/disi-archive@merit.edu

Description of 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.

 Goals and Milestones:

   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. 

   JUL 92       Submit as an Internet-Draft the `How to get registered' 
                paper. 

   Done         Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Advanced Usages' paper. 

   NOV 92       Submit to the IESG the `How to get registered' paper as an 
                informational document. 

   NOV 92       Submit to the IESG the `Advanced Usages' paper as an 
                informational document. 

   NOV 92       Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Where do I belong in the 
                Directory' paper. 

   NOV 92       Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Pilot Projects Catalog' 
                paper. 

   MAR 93       Submit to the IESG the `Pilot Projects Catalog' as an 
                informational document. 

   MAR 93       Submit as an Internet-Draft the `Guide to setting up a 
                DSA'. 

   MAR 93       Submit to the IESG the `Where do I belong in the Directory' 
                paper as an informational document. 

   JUL 93       Submit to the IESG the `Guide to setting up a DSA' as an 
                informational document. 

   Done         Submit an Internet-Draft on `Catalog of available X.500 
                Implementations' 

   Done         Submit to the IESG the `Catalog of available X.500 
                Implementations' as an informational document. 

   Done         Submit to the IESG the `Executive Introduction to 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 `Technical Overview of Directory 
                Services and X.500' as an informational document. 

   Done         Submit an Internet-Draft on `Executive Introduction to 
                X.500' 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC1292 I    JAN 92    A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations 

RFC1309 I    MAR 92    Technical Overview of Directory Services Using the 
                       X.500 Protocol 

RFC1308 I    MAR 92    Executive Introduction to Directory Services Using 
                       the X.500 Protocol