CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Linda Millington/University of London Computer Centre Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) Introduction The group is about to be chartered. The new chairs, Linda Millington and Sri Sataluti, were introduced. Charter Discussion Several questions were raised as to the purpose of this working group. Erik Huizer discussed a white pages meeting that took place during the Houston IETF and the document, RFC 1588, which came out of that meeting. A clayman proposal for an Internet White Pages Service (IWPS), contained in RFC 1588, was described. Three working groups have been formed to achieve the IWPS: o Internet White Pages Requirements (WHIP) has been tasked to develop a set of requirements for the IWPS. o Access/Synchronization of the Internet Directories (ASID) has been tasked to develop access protocols to the various directory services. o Integrated Directory Services (IDS) has been tasked to deal with all things independent of the actual access protocols. IDS is a policy group, not an implementation group. IDS will focus on things like legal issues. It will provide as much information to the implementors as possible. After WHIP concludes, a new group will probably be formed to work on an indexing model. A real prototype for IWPS is expected by the middle or end of next year. Discussion of the proposed agenda then took place. Use of the word ``pilot'' was questioned since many organizations are already running production directory services on the Internet. A question was also raised about collecting information on other directory services not on the Internet. It was generally felt that those running these directory services should try to communicate with the IETF. IDS will also be responsible for the revision of FYIs and RFCs that it produces when they need updating. With these few changes, it was decided to accept the description of the working group contained in the proposed charter. Discussion of the goals and milestones will be deferred to the mailing list. Erik reminded us that each item in the goals and milestones section must have a name assigned to it. Information Privacy and Legal Issues A paper by Catherine Treca and Erik Huizer, ``An Overview of International Privacy Issues Concerning Provision of Directory Services,'' was distributed to the mailing list just before the IETF meeting. This paper is not a legal document. It simply gives an overview of the legal issues in several European countries. In European countries, one cannot even start to deploy a directory service before making an analysis of privacy laws. Many European countries abide by the same model for information privacy. This paper attempts to summarize that general model. Following the general model is a section that describes privacy laws by specific country where they differ from the general model. Now countries can describe their policies in relation to the general model. Erik would like people in the US and other countries to gather similar information for inclusion in this paper. Many people felt that doing an analysis of privacy issues for the US would be difficult. One solution might be to not include a summary for the US. There is also the NADF User Bill of Rights which perhaps could be included in the paper. Liaison Reports Tim Howes reported that the NADF is still piloting and that there is nothing new to report. Linda Millington reported that interworking reports were recently made available by the Operational Interworking Forum and Platform (OIFP). The OIFP deals with interworking between X.500 implementations. The final report is available on the Paradise FTP server: ftp://ftp.paradise.ulcc.ac.uk/paradise/oifpfinal.txt. X.500 Implementation Catalog Arlene Getchell reported that several contributors to the catalog are interested in submitting updated product descriptions. Considering how long it took to publish this last update of the catalog, probably many of the descriptions are out-dated. A discussion took place regarding the possibility of turning this RFC into a ``living document.'' The RFC would be comprised of the static information plus pointers (probably URLs) that would point to where the updated product information actually lives. The InterNIC would possibly be the primary source for the current product descriptions. Erik will look into the feasibility of doing this and get back to us. WHOIS++ Catalog Chris Weider stated that this catalog is still non-existent. The current status of the WHOIS++ effort is that four server implementations and many clients exist but no one has had the time to collect descriptions of them for this catalog. Joan Gargano volunteered to work on a first draft of the WHOIS++ implementation catalog. Code of Conduct Very little discussion has taken place so far on the mailing list (discussion: idcc@es.net, subscription: idcc-request@es.net). Tony Genovese sees that there are several starting points for this effort: o The NADF User Bill of Rights o Rodney Tillotson's Code of Conduct paper for the UK Academic Community Directory pilot o Catherine and Erik's paper on international privacy issues It was agreed that this discussion needs to be moved back to the larger list. There is a need to clear up the requirements for this activity. Tony suggested using Rodney's paper as a starting point (after getting his permission). X.500 Projects Catalog The purpose of this catalog is to provide information for new organizations to find out how to get connected to a directory service (how to get connected to the global DIT). Allan Cargille sent out a draft version just before the IETF meeting. There was one suggestion that an item should be added that allows the service to be characterized as production or pilot.