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+Network Working Group                 The North American Directory Forum
+Request for Comments: 1758                                 February 1995
+Obsoletes: 1417, 1295, 1255, 1218
+Category: Informational
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+                        NADF Standing Documents:
+                            A Brief Overview
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+Status of this Memo
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+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
+   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
+   this memo is unlimited.
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+Table of Contents
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+   1. Introduction .........................................    1
+   1.1 Document Availability ...............................    3
+   1.1.1 Hardcopy ..........................................    4
+   1.1.2 Anonymous FTP .....................................    4
+   Security Considerations .................................    4
+   Author's Address ........................................    4
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+1.  Introduction
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+   The North American Directory Forum (NADF) is a collection of service
+   providers which plans to cooperatively offer a Public Directory
+   Service in North America using the CCITT X.500 Recommendations.
+   Although many groups are working on realizing X.500, the NADF is
+   unique in that it must achieve a cooperative service offered by
+   competing providers.
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+   The purpose of this document is to provide a brief overview of the
+   NADF's Standing Document series.  As of this writing, the standing
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+NADF                                                            [Page 1]
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+RFC 1758                NADF Standing Documents            February 1995
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+               SD-0    NADF Standing Documents: A Brief Overview
+               SD-1    Terms of Reference
+               SD-2    Program Plan
+               SD-3    Service Description
+               SD-4    The Directory Schema
+               SD-5    An X.500 Naming Scheme for National DIT Subtrees
+                           and Its Application for c=CA and c=US
+               SD-6    Guidelines on Naming and Subtrees
+               SD-7    Mapping the North American DIT
+                           onto Directory Management Domains
+               SD-8    The Experimental Pilot Plan
+               SD-9    Charter, Procedures and Operations of the
+                       Central Administration for NADF
+               SD-10   Security & Privacy: Policy & Services
+               SD-11   Directory Security: Mechanisms and Practicality
+               SD-12   Registry of ADDMD Names
+               SD-13   NADF Accounting and Settlements
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+   SD-1 defines the scope of the NADF, whilst SD-2 describes issue of
+   interest to the NADF.
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+   The remaining documents describe the agreements necessary to achieve
+   a cooperative Public Directory Service offered by competing
+   providers.  In this context, it should be observed that the NADF
+   relies on X.500(88) to the largest extent possible.
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+   SD-3 contains agreements concerning the Directory "service", e.g.,
+   quality of service, whilst SD-4 contains agreements concerning the
+   Directory schema.
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+   SD-5 concerns itself with how a national authority should structure
+   its DIT subtree, and then applies these principles to define the
+   naming scheme for the c=CA and c=US parts of the DIT.  The NADF's
+   approach is to divide a national DIT subtree into two portions: the
+   public name-space, which corresponds to information objects having
+   some sort of public recognition (e.g., states, counties, businesses,
+   etc.), and several private name-spaces, each unilaterally managed by
+   a public provider of Directory services.  (SD-12 defines the registry
+   of these providers.) Based on the civil standing of an entity, that
+   entity may opt to list as one or more entries in the public name-
+   space.  That is, registration, per se, occurs outside of the
+   Directory.  This is an important concept as it allows an entity to
+   list where others are likely to search.
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+NADF                                                            [Page 2]
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+RFC 1758                NADF Standing Documents            February 1995
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+   SD-6 provides guidelines as to how organizations might wish to
+   organize their private name-space, and also discusses how multi-
+   nationals might choose to list themselves.
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+   SD-7 contains agreements concerning how the DIT is mapped onto
+   multiple DMDs.  Knowledge maintenance procedures are absent from
+   X.500(88), and products which support X.500(92) are years away.
+   Further, the competitive relationships between the North American
+   Directory providers invalidate any possibility of a single entity
+   having exclusive management rights to the public name-space.  The
+   NADF approach is to cooperatively manage the public name-space by
+   allowing each service provider to provide linkage from the public
+   name-space into their own private name-space.  This information is
+   limited to knowledge references and naming links; there is little, if
+   any, payload present.  SD-9 discusses how a central authority (termed
+   the CAN) coordinates and disseminates this information.  In effect,
+   the CAN publishes a roadmap for North American Public Directory
+   Service.
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+   SD-8 describes agreements reached for the NADF Pilot.
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+   SD-10 describes the NADF policy toward security and privacy.
+   Attachment 1 of SD-10 contains the "User Bill of Rights for entries
+   and listings in the Public Directory".  In contrast, SD-11 describes
+   the security facilities available in the Directory, and then
+   specifies which mechanisms which will be used in the Public Directory
+   service.
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+   SD-12 provides a registry of ADDMD names in the NADF project.
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+   SD-13 provides a model and general principles for accounting and
+   settlement in the directory.
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+1.1.  Document Availability
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+   At the present time, the NADF standing documents are available only
+   in hardcopy and PostScript form.  Since they do not exist in ASCII
+   form, the NADF standing documents can not be distributed as
+   informational RFCs.  Following are the various distribution
+   mechanisms available.
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+NADF                                                            [Page 3]
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+1.1.1.  Hardcopy
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+               Postal: NADF Secretariat
+                       c/o Rapport Communication
+                       2721 N Street NW
+                       Washington, DC 20007
+                       US
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+               Tel:    +1 202 342 2727
+               Fax:    +1 202 625 4101
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+               E-Mail: Ted Myer <4454742@mcimail.com>
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+1.1.2.  Anonymous FTP
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+               host:   ftp.gte.com
+               area:   /pub/nadf/nadf-docs
+               files:  sd-*.ps
+               mode:   ascii
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+Security Considerations
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+   Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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+Author's Address
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+   North American Directory Forum
+   c/o Theodore H. Myer
+   Rapport Communication
+   2721 N Street NW
+   Washington, DC  20007
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+   Phone: +1 202-342-2727
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+   EMail: 0004454742@mcimail.com
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+NADF                                                            [Page 4]
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