Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited. IDS Minutes Montreal IETF 9am to 11:30am June 26th 1996 Reported by : Linda Millington, Control Data Systems Inc. 1. Previous meeting's Minutes and current Agenda were agreed. 2. Whois++ Projects Presentation The Internet Whois++ Project NSF Testbed is currently running Digger 2.0 and moving in to production. There are currently 4 participating campuses with a total of 100,000 records with 8 attribute/value pairs per record. The anticipated size is 250,000 to 300,000 records. There is one centroid at present which receives 400 hits/day. The final report of this project is due in July/August 1996. The Swedish CIP Project is scheduled to run from August 1996 until January 1997 and is required to span ISPs, companies with their own catalogues and companies which run the service. Access will be via Whois++ with LDAP following later. Initially this project is for email addresses. Hudson is a White Pages for the Government in Canada which is using Whois++ and CIP. This has been moved from test into production and can be accessed via http://whitestar.ic.gc.ca/hudson 3. Status of on-line Catalogs The X.500 I-D has been sent to the list and needs to be reviewed. Sri and Linda offered to do this. The Catalog currently contains details on 26 implementations. The next stage will be for the implementors to be given two weeks to check their entries before moving to last call and the Catalog web site will be updated within two weeks of the I-D becoming an RFC. The Whois++ Catalog currently has three entries, Digger server from Bunyip (just released), IMAP client from ICL and Wombat which is a stand-alone X Windows client from Bunyip. 4. Ph Drafts Status "The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture" Draft needs to be reviewed by the Ph people. A two week deadline has been imposed to make a decision on this being put up for proposed standard. The "Preferred Practices for Ph Directory Services" Draft has not been circulated. Joann will send a Draft to the list by October with the target status being informational. 5. DNS Aliases Martin Hamilton gave an overview of the "Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services" Draft. A lengthy discussion ensued about this being a short term solution until SRV available and that there seemed to be no single commonly used alias for CCSO. It was decided to move the discussion about the CCSO alias to the mailing list and the group felt that this Draft should be progressed as a BCP. 6. Discovery The "Finding Stuff (Providing information to support service discovery)" Draft was discussed and the authors agreed to look at the Service Location Draft and if more work needed to be done the information should be fed back to that WG. 7. BCP on Directory Concern was expressed that even though this Draft had be sent to the list there had been no comments. It was suggested that specific pointers to existing services would be useful. 8. Managing the X.500 Root Naming Context Dante wants to migrate from Quipu to an X.500 1993 service but has run in to problems with the 1993 way of doing one level searches. Defect reports on the Standard are currently being progressed with the aim of getting a new profile to shadow a single entry. The aim is to re-issue this Draft as Experimental by September. 9. White Pages Schema Draft Various comments on syntax and names have been received and they will be circulated to the mailing list for further discussion. The section on owner/creator needs to be made consistent and some clarifying text needs to be added about issues such as attributes should be supported by the server but don't have to necessarily be populated. Due to lack of time further discussion on multi-valued attributes will be held on the list. Tony will circulate a revised Draft by August 1st 1996. 10. Normandy Microsoft gave a presentation on Normandy the directory service they are building using the IDS work. 11. Nomenclator Nomenclator integrates CCSO servers and is currently an experimental tool. The Query Resolver and Distributed Catalog Service will be run at Bell Labs initially in order to gain experience before making the software available. More information is available from : http://cm.bell-labs.com/what/nomenclator http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/joann