Directory Services Activities Report - 10/92

[Tom Tignor <[e-mail]>]

							   September 1992
							   Issue #18

Directory Services Activities
-----------------------------

This report serves as a forum to distribute information about the
various efforts working to develop directory services that are for, or
affect, the Internet.  It is published as part of the FOX Project's
efforts to facilitate the coordination and cooperation of different
directory services working groups.  This report is distributed
virtually unchanged as part of the Internet Monthly Report, and a
modified version is submitted to the PARADISE International Report.
We would like to encourage any organization with news about directory
service activities to use this forum for publishing brief monthly news
items.  The current reporters list includes:

        o IETF OSIDS Working Group                              [no]
        o IETF DISI Working Group                               [no]
        o Field Operational X.500 Project
           - ISI                                                [no]
           - Merit                                              [no]
           - PSI                                                [no]
           - SRI                                                [no]
        o National Institute of Standards and Technology        [included]
        o North American Directory Forum                        [no]
        o OSI Implementor's Workshop                            [no]
        o PARADISE Project                                      [no]
        o PSI DARPA/NNT X.500 Project                           [no]
        o PSI WHITE PAGES PILOT                                 [no]
        o Registration Authority Committee (ANSI USA RAC)       [no]
        o U.S. Department of State, Study Group D,              [no]
            MHS Management Domain subcommittee (SG-D MHS-MD)

                [no] indicates no report this month


Tom Tignor ([e-mail])
DS Report Coordinator


NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
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     Pilot Management
     ----------------
     The dialup Directory User Agent (DUA) interface set up  late
     in   July   continues  to  receive  moderate  use.  Fourteen
     connections  were  made  via  the  dialup  facility   during
     September.

     The NIST X.500 team met with Tom Wagner, Dan  Schneider  and
     Tom  Dewitt  of GSA to discuss NIST's progress on work items
     associated  with  the  X.500  pilot,  among  other   things.
     Progress was found to be satisfactory, with most commitments
     satisfied.

     NIST X.500 Implementation
     -------------------------
     During September, requests  for  the  Custos  software  were
     received  from the University of Missouri, the University of
     Madrid (Spain)  and  the  Xerox  Corporation,  bringing  the
     number  of  organizations  that have received release 0.2 of
     the software to a total of thirty. Dr. Adrian  Tang  of  the
     University  of  Missouri met with the NIST X.500 team during
     September's OSE Implementors' Workshop, and  indicated  that
     he  and his staff had a particular interest in expanding the
     range of attributes and  attribute  syntaxes  recognized  by
     Custos.

     Work was commenced on  reconfiguring  Osiware's  XDUA  X.500
     Directory User Agent package to support all of the Directory
     attribute types and syntaxes currently supported by  Custos.
     There are still some occasional bugs which crop up when XDUA
     is run, and we are working with  Osiware  in  an  effort  to
     track  them down and remedy them. XDUA is our DUA package of
     choice for Custos demonstrations because it provides a  user
     friendly,  X-Windows-based  interface to Custos while at the
     same time demonstrating interoperability between  two  quite
     unrelated X.500 implementations.

     Pilot DSA Usage Statistics
     --------------------------
     The statistics for September 1 through September 30 were  as
     follows:


      Number of DSA restarts:                              2
      Number of DAP connections:                          27
      Number of DSP connections:                           0
      Total number of operations:                         53
                                       DAP Operations:    53
                                       DSP Operations:     0


      Breakdown of operations:
      DAP:
                                       Read:              24
                                       Compare:            0
                                       List:              15
                                       Search:            14
                                       Add:                0
                                       Remove:             0
      DSP:
                                       Read:               0
                                       Compare:            0
                                       List:               0
                                       Search:             0
                                       Add:                0
                                       Remove:             0

     John Tebbutt ([e-mail])