MHS-DS (mhsds) Charter


NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 31st IETF Meeting in San Jose. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Applications Area Director(s):

Mailing List Information

Description of Working Group

The MHS-DS Working Group works on issues relating to Message Handling Services use of Directory Services. The message handling services are primarily X.400, but issues relating to RFC 822 use of Directory and Directory support for RFC 822 and X.400 interworking are in the scope of the group. Directory and Directory Services refer to the services based upon the CCITT X.500 recommendations and additional ISO standards, stable implementation agreements, and RFCs, as specified by the OSI-DS Working Group. The major aims of the MHS-DS Working Group are:

1. Define a set of specifications to enable effective, large-scale deployment of X.400.

2. Study issues associated with supporting X.400 communities which lack access to X.500 Directory, and define requirements for tools which: (a) extract information from the X.500 Directory for use by non-X.500 applications, and (b) upload information into the X.500 Directory.

3. Coordinate a pilot project which deploys MHS information into the X.500 Directory and uses it to facilitate mail routing and address mapping. The results of this pilot will be documented, and experience gained from the project will be fed back into the Internet specifications created by the working group.

Goals and Milestones

Ongoing
Provide a forum to discuss Directory support of Message Handling Services including the operational aspects of X.500 based routing in the Internet community and issues of migration from non-X.500 to X.500 based routing.
Ongoing
Establish and maintain liaison relationships with similar groups working on X.400 and X.500, e.g., RRE Mail and Messaging Group, IETF OSI-DS Working Group, IETF X.400 Operations Working Group and the IETF MIME-MHS Working Group.
Done
Post an overview of MHS use of Directory as an Internet-Draft.
Done
Post a document on representing tables and subtees in the directory as an Internet-Draft.
Done
Post an Internet-Draft on representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information Tree.
Done
Post an Internet-Draft on MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing.
Done
Post as an Internet-Draft a document on the use of the directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC822 addresses.
Done
Post as an Internet-Draft a document describing a simple profile for MHS use of Directory.
Done
Post as an Internet-Draft a document on the use of the Directory to support routing for RFC822 and related protocols.
Done
Submit as an Internet-Draft a document on MHS use of Directory to support MHS Context Conversion.
Done
Post as an Internet-Draft a document describing the use of the Directory to support distribution lists.
Done
Submit the set of MHS-DS documents to the IESG for consideration as Experimental and Informational documents.

Current Internet-Drafts

No Request for Comments