CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Linda Millington/Control Data Systems Minutes of the Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) The IDS Working Group met once at the Stockholm IETF on Wednesday, 19 July. There were no changes or additions to the agenda. Liaison Reports/Pilot Projects In order to free up some time in the meetings, liaison reports and pilot project reports will be circulated on the mailing list. The following reports were circulated: AARNet, Nomenclator, and Long Bud. Nameflow/Paradise Report Vincent Berkhout gave an overview of the current status of the Nameflow/Paradise service. He reported a steady growth of about 40% in the number of entries in the DIT. The current installed base is mainly unsupported Quipu which needs to be upgraded to 1993 and the issues of where to go next are currently being studied. The main aim is for the service to grow and, with this goal in mind, service level agreements will be put in place where possible. The service will be opened up for commercial companies to participate and it will be made easier for small organisations to participate. Another important aspect of the future of the service will be an improvement in quality. Availability of first level DSAs is improving and there are currently over 700 DSAs throughout the world participating with over 4,500 organisations which are mainly based in Europe. An analysis of DE logins has shown that more than two thirds of the directory enquiries on the central server are from the US. http://www.dante.net/nameflow.html ``growth'' On-line Directory Catalogues Patrik has put the WHOIS++ catalogue up on the Web and this has been operational for three weeks now. The catalogue contains one server so far. The WHOIS++ pilot currently consists of over 40 servers worldwide with over 40,000 white pages entries and 5,000 URCs. One server is being registered per day. The Digger home page contains information on what is happening in the WHOIS++ area. More statistics will be available for the Dallas meeting and WHOIS++ will be added to the pilot projects list. Patrik will provide the URL to add a product to the list. Chris Apple is currently putting the X.500 catalogue on-line. He currently has ten additional implementations to add and is starting to look at X.500 1993 implementations. http://ds.internic.net/ds/projects.html Schema Registry The discussion began by ascertaining that there was a need for maintaining an X.500 schema for the Internet. Once this was decided, the problem of the decision making process was tackled. Talk centred around the issues of getting it right and getting used. The conclusion was that there should be a two step process of putting items in to the registry, then if there are no RFCs within a certain timescale, drop them. The importance of a common schema across directory services was acknowledged but it was felt that the focus should be kept on solving the problems of the X.500 registry before becoming too ambitious. Sri and Linda will do the fine-tuning and language changes on the schema registry document then send it to the Area Directors again. Volunteers were sought to publish a successor to RFC 1274 and Roland Hedberg offered to help Sri with the document. X.500 Root Context David Chadwick circulated a paper on the X.500 Root context to the list. In his absence, Vincent Berkhout gave the background of the paper. The ultimate aim is to replace the root DSA and move to a 1993 service which necessitates the functionality to connect first level DSAs. The discussion centred around the activities needed to run an X.500 1993 pilot/service and it was felt that a number of documents would be required. In the light of this the Area Director saw the need for a new working group to tackle this area. At this point the importance of a rolling directory group which spins off working groups when necessary was emphasised. The Area Directors will look at this and get back to the group. Building a Directory Service In The US The conclusion of the group was that this document was extremely beneficial and should be published as soon as possible. Any comments or discussion points should be sent to the mailing list with the aim of publishing an Internet-Draft at the beginning of August which will then be progressed to an Informational RFC. It was also suggested that the SURFNet booklet be published as a BCP RFC. Simple Internet White Pages Document Review The white pages documents have been brought into this group for review and progression. The WHIP document had become very complicated and a lengthy discussion ensued on how to progress with it. A number of items surfaced as being essential to a future white pages service, it needs to be kept simple and achievable and a common schema is extremely important. The decision was to use the WHIP document as a basis and break it into user requirements and schema requirements. o User Requirements April Marine will take the lead for pushing this Internet-Draft forward and her co-authors will be Allan Cargille, Tony Genovese and a representative from SURFNet, Peter Jurg. The working group needs to participate in this activity and the aim is to have an Internet-Draft by the end of August. o Schema Requirements Tony Genovese will produce a draft by the end of August. Charter Review The charter will be circulated and reviewed in detail on the list. The X.500 Catalogue date should be December 1995. The Area Director suggested that pilots should have goals and end dates. The WHOIS++ Pilot and X.500 1993 Pilots will be added to the pilot reporting procedure.