DISI Charter as approved at St. Louis...

[Chris Weider <clw>]

Gang:
     This is the DISI Charter as approved at St. Louis.  If anyone has any
changes, please let me know by Wednesday, March 27, as this will be submitted
to Joyce and Ross and Rob for final acceptance then.
Chris Weider, Chair
DISI

Draft Charter for Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure

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Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure Working Group (DISI)

Chairperson:

	Chris Weider, MERIT  [e-mail]

Mailing Lists:
	General Discussion:	[e-mail]
	To Subscribe:		[e-mail]
	Mail Archive:		pub/[e-mail]

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 Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure 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 information to facilitate
	the building of infrastructure with an eye towards truly operational
	status, DISI will need to form liasons 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 Operations and
	Infrastructure of Directory Services (OIDS) Group.

Goals and Milestones:

March 1991:	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.
		Discuss liasons to various European Directory Services 
		groups.

July 1991:	Second IETF Meeting: review and approve documentation;
		review and approve charter for the OIDS group.

August 1991:	Electronically review final draft of documentation, and,
		if acceptable, submit to IESG for publication.

December 1991:  Third IETF Meeting: Declare success and reform DISI group
		as OIDS group.