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OSI Directory Services (OSIDS) Charter

Chair(s)

Mailing List Information

Description of Working Group

The OSI-DS group works on issues relating to building an OSI Directory Service using X.500 and its deployment on the Internet. Whilst this group is not directly concerned with piloting, the focus is practical, and technical work needed as a pre-requisite to deployment of an open Directory will be considered.

Goals and Milestones

Ongoing
Maintain a Schema for the OSI Directory on the Internet.
Ongoing
Liaisons should be established as appropriate. In particular: RARE WG3, NIST, CCITT/ISO IEC, North American Directory Forum.
Done
Definition of a Technical Framework for Provision of a Directory Infrastructure on the Internet, using X.500. This task may later be broken into subtasks. A series of RFCs will be produced.
Done
Study the relationship of the OSI Directory to the Domain Name Service.

NOTE: The Internet-Draft(s) listed below may have been deleted since they are only good for six months.

Internet-Drafts

Request for Comments