MHS-DS (mhsds) Charter Chair(s): Kevin Jordan Harald Alvestrand Service Applications Area Director(s) Dave Crocker Mailing lists: General Discussion:mhs-ds@mercury.udev.cdc.com To Subscribe: mhs-ds-request@mercury.udev.cdc.com Archive: mercury.udev.cdc.com:~/pub/archives/mhs-ds-archive 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 RFC822 use of Directory and Directory support for RFC822 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, 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 he operational aspects of X.500 based routing in the Internet community andissues of migration from non-X.500 to X.500 based routing. Ongoing Establish and maintain liason 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. Jan 93 Post an overview of MHS use of Directory as an Internet Draft. Done Post a document on representing tables and subteees 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 RFC 822 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 RFC 822 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. Aug 93 Submit the set of MHS-DS documents to the IESG for consideration as Experimental and Informational documents. Internet Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Apr 92 Nov 92 Use of the Directory to support routing for RFC 822 and related protocols Apr 92 Nov 92 A simple profile for MHS use of Directory Apr 92 Nov 92 Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory Apr 92 Nov 92 Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information Tree Apr 92 Nov 92 Use of the Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses Apr 92 Nov 92 MHS use of the Directory to support distribution lists Apr 92 Nov 92 MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing Nov 92 New MHS use of Directory to support MHS Content Conversion Request For Comments: None to date.