Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/31 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Urs Eppenberger/SWITCH and Kevin Jordan/CDC Minutes of the MHS-DS Working Group (MHSDS) Agenda o Revision of the Charter o Status of the Documents o Review of the Documents o AOB The Minutes of the last MHS-DS meeting in Innsbruck, Austria were approved. Charter The revision and progression of SHKs documents have highest priority. The Charter will be revised to include the following new items: o Study the support of X.400 communities without directory access, and define requirements for tools which: - Extract info from the DIT into files. - Upload info from files into DIT. o Identify additional information possibly needed to facilitate MHS management (beyond what is already defined in the Internet Drafts) and define where and how to place it in the DIT. (Note: it may be the case that no additional information is needed, at least in the short to medium term). Jim Romaguera volunteered to work on this item. o The Group will coordinate a pilot and document the results. Experience from the piloting activity may necessitate changes in the MHS-DS specifications. Also, guidelines for deployment and tuning may result. Status of the Documents The following papers have been updated by SHK and were submitted to the RFC Editor as Internet Drafts: 1 1. Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory. 2. Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information Tree. 3. MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing. 4. Use of the Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses. 5. MHS use of the Directory to support distribution lists. 6. A simple profile for MHS use of Directory. 7. Use of the Directory to support routing for RFC 822 and related protocols. What needs still to be done: o ASN.1 definitions in some of the documents. o Routing algorithm in pseudo code. Perl code in beta status available from HTA. It's well suited for sanity checking of the algorithms since the code is executable o A short overview paper is needed, KEJ volunteered to write it. o Content conversion issues to be taken out of the routing document [3] and moved into a separate document. o Notes on expected performance [3]. o Section on acknowledgements. o References section. o Section defining regular expressions (used in routing filters) [3]. o A table of MTA attributes and how they affect routing [3]. The next public release of PP will include the functionality defined in the minimum profile [6]. Quipu in ISODE 8.0 includes most of the objects defined in [1]-[7]. PP and Quipu will provide enough functionality to start a pilot. The restriction of supporting the open tree only may limit the scale of the pilot. X-Tel got a contract from the European Commission for the project EXPLODE. Consequently, most functionality defined in [5] will be implemented in PP. Review of the Documents The documents [1]-[6] were thoroughly reviewed (page by page). 2 Editorial changes were pointed out for the documents [1], [2] and [4]. SHK will update the documents. The MHS-DS Working Group proposes to submit these documents as Experimental Standards. Experience gained through the pilot may lead to document updates. After gaining experience via piloting, the documents will be revised, then the next goal will be to submit them as proposed standards. [5] This document was discussed quite thoroughly at the meeting. As a result, additional needed functionality and DL policies were identified. A new version will be distributed and discussed at the next meeting. [3] Some of the algorithms are changed. The location of the open tree under O=Internet was discussed. The conclusion was to keep the open tree under the root of the DIT root, as originally proposed. It has been pointed out that [3] defines only a framework for using X.500 for X.400 routing. MHS communities will need to specify in more detail how the routing must be organised. It is a task of the pilot to study these issues. SHK will update [3] and resubmit it as an Internet Draft. [6] Did not get significant changes. Since it is tightly coupled with [3], it will also be updated and resubmitted as an Internet Draft. [7] Will be discussed at the next meeting. AOB Next meeting: 25th IETF, November 16-20, 1992, Washington, D.C. Action List Kevin Jordan To revise the Charter. To write an overview paper. Urs Eppenberger To write the Minutes. Harald Alvestrand To provide pseudo code. Jim Romaguera To write a document on possible additional objects and attributes needed in the framework of MHS management. Steve Hardcastle-Kille To make editorial changes to the documents [1], [2] and [4] and submit them as Experimental Standards. To revise documents [3] and [5] and distribute them to the list in time for the next meeting. 3 To create an additional document on content conversion and access units. Everybody to study the revised documents and contribute comments. Attendees Ed Albrigo ealbrigo@cos.com Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no C. Allan Cargille cargille@cs.wisc.edu James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu Curtis Cox ccox@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch Ray Freiwirth 5242391@mcimail.com Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org Tony Genovese genovese@nersc.gov Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no Steve Hardcastle-Kille s.kille@isode.com John Hawthorne johnh@tigger.rl.af.mil Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl Takashi Ikemoto tikemoto@xerox.com Kevin Jordan kej@udev.cdc.com Todd Kaehler kaehler@zk3.dec.com Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch Eric Nowak nowak@ans.net Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch Einar Stefferud stefisoc@nma.com= Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de Brien Wheeler blw@mitre.org Peter Williams p.williams@uk.ac.ucl.cs Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com 4