The Integrated Directory Services (IDS) Working Group is chartered to facilitate the integration and interoperability of current and future directories into a unified Internet directory service. This work will unite directories based on a heterogeneous set of directory services protocols (X.500, WHOIS++, etc.). In addition to specifying technical requirements for the integration, the IDS Working Group will also contribute to the administrative and maintenance issues of directory service offerings by publishing guidelines on directory data integrity, maintenance, security, and privacy and legal issues for users and administrators of directories. The IDS Working Group will pay special attention to the creation of an Internet White Pages Directory Service and will sponsor and track projects to achieve this goal and specifically take steps to facilitate wide-spread experimentation of the protocols evolving in the ASID Working Group. The IDS Working Group will work on applications of directory technology and will track ongoing applications projects. The IDS Working Group will assume responsibility for the creation and maintenance of on-line catalogs of directory services implementations. These catalogs will be periodically published as Informational RFCs. The IDS Working Group will take up the unfinished tasks of the WHIP - White Pages Requirements Working Group - that was constituted at the Seattle IETF. The WHIP Working Group set out to define the basic requirements for a Simple Internet White Pages Service. The IDS Working Group will liaise with the groups working on development and deployment of the various directory service protocols. The IDS Working Group is a combined effort of the Applications Area and the User Services Area of the IETF. Ongoing Activities: Track emerging directory service protocols in order to identify the need for specifying standards for interworking with other service protocols Liaise with groups working on deployment and development of directory services to locate and fix interoperability problems. Identify unfilled needs of directory service offerers, administrators, and users. Catalogs maintained on-line, with occasional publication as RFCs: RFC due On-line version Name Dec 95 Jun 95 A Catalog of WHOIS++ Implementations. -- Patrick Faltstrom (first issue) Dec 95 Jul 95 The On-line X.500 Directory Implementations Catalog (on-line version of RFC 1632). -- Chris Apple and Ken Rossen Pilot Projects reporting to this group: The Long Bud Project -- Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400 Routing (RFC 1802) Co-ordinator: Kevin Jordan Lifetime: Jan 94 - Dec 96 The Internet Nomenclator Project Co-ordinator: Joann Ordille Lifetime: Jun 95 - Jun 97 The Internet Whois++ Project Co-ordinator: Patrick Faltstrom Lifetime: Jun 95 - Jun 97 The Internet X.500 (1993) Directory Project Co-ordinator: Vincent Berkhout Lifetime: Dec 95 - Dec 97 The Schema Registry project - identifying and publishing X.500 schema elements used on the Internet Co-ordinator: Sri Sataluri Lifetime: November 94 - Nov 96