1. 1 Directories in Europe Ton.Verschuren @ SURFnet.NL Innovation Manager CAMP, Tempe, Arizona – 1-3 Feb 2002

2. 2 But first late breaking news…

3. 3 History X.500-based white pages early ’90’s Paradise project (EU funded)-> NameFLOW/Paradise (EU funded) -> NameFLOW service (DANTE) –http://www.dante.net/nameflow/http://www.dante.net/nameflow/ –Central knowledge repository for finding other countries DSA’s –Recently moved from X.500 to LDAP

4. 4 NameFLOW now LDAPv3 referral server Exchange of LDIF files Experimenting with indexingin TF-LSD (http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-lsd/) Mainly white pages, certificates are being added –(e.g. http://ldap.gigacorp.nl/pkildap.html)http://ldap.gigacorp.nl/pkildap.html Advanced countries: Nordic, ES, DE, NL

5. 5 Naming scheme X.521 predominant : o=University of Amsterdam, c=NL Domain component rising : dc=uva, dc=nl Need for mapping between parallel DITs

6. 6 Parallel DITs

7. 7 Indexing Based upon Common Indexing Protocol (CIP, RFC2561) Locally generated indexes (TIO’s, RFC2654) or centrally crawled Loaded into LDAP server –Minimum info centrally –Entire entries thru referrals S/w available (DESIRE, SURFnet, Ericsson)

8. 8 And more… Privacy legislation http://www.surfnet.nl/en/publications/privacybrochure/ Exploring non-white pages areas –Directory-enabled apps Certificate handling… with 2 naming schemes??? Metadirectories Feeding RADIUS with LDAP data