RFC 1632
A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
AVAILABILITY
PathWay Messaging is commercially available from:
The Wollongong Group, Inc.
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
Sales and Information: (415) 962 7100
FAX: (415) 969-5547
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
July 27th, 1993
NAME PC-DUA NEXOR KEYWORDS 386, Commercially Available, DUA Connectivity, DUA Interface, IBM PC, LDAP, RFC-1487 ABSTRACT PC-DUA provides a MS Windows based user interface to the X.500 Directory. Features include: - Searching - Directory Browser - to enable user to identify directory entry - History - allowing quick access to previously referenced parts of the DIT. - User Friendly Name (UFN) based searching - Hypertext-like navigation. - Friendly names for attribute labels. - Intelligent choice of entries to display when moving to a new location in the DIT. - O-line hypertext help. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) Compliant with LDAP. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS The following are supported: RFC 1487 CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs [No information provided--Ed.] INTEROPERABILITY PC-DUA has interoperated with LDAP 2.0 and 3.0 beta distributions.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Full DUA connectivity to the PARADISE and PSI White Pages X.500
Pilots.
BUGS
No known bugs. Support is given via phone or email to
"support@nexor.co.uk"
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
WinSock based TCP/IP stacks
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
386 PC WITH 4MGBYTES RAM
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
MS WINDOWS 3.1
AVAILABILITY
PC-DUA is commercial software. For more details contact:
NEXOR
8 Faraday Building
Highfields Science Park
Nottingham
NG7 2QP
UK
DN: c=GB@o=NEXOR Ltd
Telephone: +44 602 520500
Fax: +44 602 520519
E-Mail: sales@nexor.co.uk
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
August 6th, 1993
NAME PC-Pages Brunel University, UK KEYWORDS DUA Connectivity, DUA Only, IBM PC, LDAP, Limited Availability, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006 ABSTRACT PC-Pages is a MS-DOS based X.500 DUA interface. It is currently only available for MS-Windows; a DOS character mode interface is being prepared. Features include: - "Form" based searching. - Supports the User Friendly Name (UFN) specification (RFC 1484). - Powerful query engine. - Tailorable entry display - display only those attributes required. - Integrates with the WhiteMail X.400 user agent. Hooks are provided to allow integration with other user agents. - Directory browsing. - Support for JPEG photo attributes. - Modify directory entries. - Add directory entries. - Delete directory entries. - Rebind to a configured DSA. - Some support for configuration of DAP service parameters. Two versions of PC-Pages are currently available. One supports DAP over CONS or DAP over RFC-1006, and has data entry and modification facilities. The other supports LDAP and has a more advanced user interface including a tree-browser, but does not yet have data entry and modification. A version in the form or a Windows DLL (Dynamic Link Library) is being prepared, for incorporation into other products such as mail agents. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) 88 Standard compliant: Strong authentication not yet implemented. No plans for support of the 1992 Standard.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS [No information provided--Ed.] CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs [No information provided--Ed.] INTEROPERABILITY Tested with Quipu 8.0. PILOT CONNECTIVITY DUA Connectivity: The interface is in use in the UK Academic Directory Pilot. BUGS Bugs should be reported to x500@brunel.ac.uk. CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS Does not support display or modification of all known attribute syntaxes. In particular: ACLs and O/R addresses. INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT RFC1006 with TCP/IP. TP4 with CONS. A NetBIOS gateway to the previously listed protocols. LDAP using Winsock. HARDWARE PLATFORMS PC-Pages for Windows requires an IBM PC compatible with 286 or higher, 2mb+ memory. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS Windows 3.0 or 3.1 running in Standard or Enhanced mode. WhiteStack 1.1, provided by the Edinburgh University Computing Service. AVAILABILITY Free to UK Academic Community, and to some other communities subject to certain restrictions. Commercial derivatives exist. Please send queries to:
Postal:
Andrew Findlay
Computing and Media Services
Brunel University
Cleveland Road
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
UK
E-mail: x500@brunel.ac.uk.
Fax: +44 895 32806 (Andrew Findlay)
Telephone: +44 895 203066 (Andrew Findlay)
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
March 10th, 1994
NAME QuickMail/X.500 Interface (DUA Interface) NASA KEYWORDS DUA Interface, Limited Availability, Needs ISODE, RFC-1274, Sun ABSTRACT The NASA QuickMail/X.500 Interface program is a program which translates QuickMail name service requests into X.500 requests and returns the results from the DSA to the QuickMail user. This system allows QuickMail users the ability to find non-QuickMail users' or non-local QuickMail users' addresses, while retaining the normal QuickMail lookup interface. The program speaks QuickMail name service protocol on one side, and DAP on the other. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) [Same as dish] -- does not support strong authentication. No support for 1992 extensions needed. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS RFC 1274 supported to the extent that we use provided schema to store QuickMail addresses. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs [No information provided--Ed.] INTEROPERABILITY Works with Quipu (ISODE 8.0, ICR1) PILOT CONNECTIVITY Connected to PSI WPPP, PARADISE. Other projects may use data if they are connected to either of these DSAs. BUGS No known bugs. Default QuickMail name service lookup time out of 10 seconds may be too fast for some DSAs to respond to.
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Requires the Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP 6.0) to work.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
EtherTalk or IPTalk on the Macintosh side, any ISODE supported
environment on the X.500 side.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Known to run on Sun 4/470
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
SunOS 4.1.1 and 4.1.3 can be used to host the package. Additionally
may need SunLink OSI 7.0.1, Sunlink X.25 7.0. ISODE 8.0 or ISODE
Consortium Release 1 needed to provide DAP support.
AVAILABILITY
Limited availability. For more details contact,
Peter Yee
MS 233-18
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
(415) 604-3812
(415) 604-6999 (FAX)
yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
February 18th, 1993
NAME QUIPU (ISODE Consortium Release 1.0) ISODE Consortium KEYWORDS API, DSA Connectivity, DSA/DUA, DUA Connectivity, Free, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, RFC-1274, RFC-1275, RFC- 1276, RFC-1277, RFC-1278, RFC-1279, RFC-1484, RFC-1485, RFC-1487, Source, Sun, UNIX, X.25 ABSTRACT This implementation is a source release derived from the earlier openly available version of QUIPU, and will be used as base technology for products by a number of vendors. The release comprises of a DSA, and a number of sample DUAs which may be used in conjunction with the DSA. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) The DSA is aligned to the 1988 ISO IS and the NIST OIW Directory Implementors Guide Version 1, with the following exceptions: - Strong authentication is not implemented (but hooks are provided for use with two packages). - QUIPU does not enforce the bounds constraints on attributes, filters or APDU size. - T.61 string formatting characters are not rejected. - If a DN is supplied with no password in an unprotected simple bind, QUIPU does not always check to see if the DN exists. If the DSA connected to can say authoritatively the DN does not exist, the association is rejected. However, if a chain operation is required to check the DN, the bind IS allowed. - When comparing attributes of UTCtime syntax, if the seconds field is omitted, QUIPU does not perform the match correctly (i.e., the seconds field in the attribute values should be ignored, but are not). - QUIPU always supplies the optional Chaining argument "originator" even if the CommonArgument "requestor" is used. - QUIPU always supplies the optional Chaining argument "target" even if the base object in the DAP arguments is the same. - The object class "without an assigned object identifier" is not recognised unless the "alias" object class is also present. - Non Specific Subordinate References are never followed by a QUIPU DSA, but they are passed on correctly to the client if generated.
Compliance with X.500(1993) standards is planned. DAP and replication (DISP) will be available in March 1994. Other 1993 features, with the exception of DOB, but including security features will be available. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS [RFC 1485], [RFC 1487], [RFC 1274], [RFC 1276], [RFC 1277]. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs [RFC 1484], [RFC 1275], [RFC 1278], [RFC 1279]. INTEROPERABILITY Interoperability with several other DSAs has been demonstrated in pilot operation and at the COS X.500 Interoperability Lab, enhancing interoperability results from the earler versions of QUIPU. PILOT CONNECTIVITY Connectivity to the global research pilot (PARADISE etc.) has been demonstrated. It is expected that this system will be used extensively in a wide range of pilot activities. DUA Connectivity, and DSA Connectivity. BUGS Bugs should be reported to <bug-quipu@isode.com> CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS None INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT The IC R1.0 release is application level code, and assumes vendor provided lower layers. It provides the following modules with support for a range of APIs to handle associated lower layers: - RFC 1006 (vendor supplied TCP/IP using sockets or TLI) - Transport service (vendor supplied transport, which may be any class and use any network service. TLI, XTI and various vendor-specific APIs). - TP0 (Vendor supplied X.25 or CONS using NTI and various vendor specific APIs).
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Reference platform is SUN SPARC.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Reference OS is SUNOS 4.1.3. It is also known to run on various other
UNIX platforms.
AVAILABILITY
Available to members of the ISODE Consortium. Membership is open to
any organisation. Also available under licence (zero cost) to all
non-commercial research organisations. Contact:
ISODE Consortium
Headquarters
PO Box 505
London
SW11 1DX
UK
Phone: +44-71-223-4062
Fax: +44-71-223-3846
Email: <ic-info@isode.com>
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
August 11th, 1993
NAME Traxis Enterprise Directory Angeli Systems Corporation KEYWORDS API, CLNS, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, HP, IBM PC, IBM RISC, Macintosh, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, RFC-1274, Sun, X.25 ABSTRACT The Traxis Enterprise Directory has multiple components in a three layer architecture. The individual components of the Traxis family are building blocks which can be assembled in a flexible, modular way to build complex systems. At the enterprise level, is a distributed directory stored and managed by Traxis Directory Engines (TDEs). At the workgroup level Traxis Directory Hubs (TDHs) provide the means to integrate and connect Traxis Directory Engines to the wide variety of real world applications and systems which prevail in network environments. The TDE and the TDH support the myriad of client applications, including messaging and business applications, which require services from the Traxis directory. At the desktop level, the Traxis Desktop Client (TDC) provides a common set of facilities which simplify and enable communications, object manipulation, and results management as required between the Traxis Directory Hub and applications. These capabilities, which include full access and management of the directory, are provided to applications through XDS++, the Traxis object oriented API. The Traxis Desktop Client also supports industry standard client software interfaces such as Microsoft MAPI, Apple OCE, CMC and VIM, through Compatibility Modules which map the standard API into XDS++. Through these APIs the Traxis Desktop Client supports applications of all kinds on PC, Macintosh, and UNIX systems. Angeli supplied Traxis applications include the Traxis Administrative Console management station, the Traxis Global Browser general directory tool, the Traxis Operator Assistance high-speed look-up, the Traxis Data Base Gateway, the Traxis Import Export Utility and more. The Traxis Directory Engine includes an X.500 DSA. The Traxis Directory Hub includes an X.500 DUA.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) Traxis Directory Engine DSA is CCITT-1988 compliant with extended security and access control. Supports access control on User, Entry, and Attribute levels. DIB or subtree administrative manager supported. Supports simple authentication with encrypted password. NIST OIW Stable Implementation Agreements [NIST-88] compliant. Support for February 14, 1993 CCITT X.500 planned. X.509 in first half of 1994. Replication and Administrative/Information Model in second half of 1994. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS Traxis conforms to RFC1274 which documents COSINE interoperability. LDAP (RFC 1487) is planned for inclusion in a later release of Traxis if market demand requires it. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs Traxis does not conform to the QUIPU RFC Internet Proposals cited. As noted elsewhere, Traxis is fully compatible with QUIPU operationally but does not use the cited RFCs in its internal operations. INTEROPERABILITY Traxis has been extensively tested for interoperability with ISODE QUIPU Version 8. Traxis Directory Engine (DSA) will serve DISH or other QUIPU DUAs using DAP. Traxis Directory Hub interoperates with QUIPU DSA. All directory access functions and their chained equivalents are interoperable. PILOT CONNECTIVITY PARADISE DUA/DSA connectivity tested. BUGS Problems may be reported to support@angeli.com. CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT Traxis Directory Hub to Traxis Directory Engine (or any DSA) communication via RFC1006 over TCP/IP, OSI TP4 with CLNS, and OSI TP0 with X.25. Traxis Desktop Client to Traxis Directory Hub via SPX/IPX or TCP/IP. Other LAN protocols supported in 1994. HARDWARE PLATFORMS Traxis Directory Hub and Traxis Directory Engine: Sun and PC currently supported. IBM RS/6000, HP 9000, and others in 1994. Traxis Desktop Client and applications: PC currently supported; Macintosh in 1994. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS Traxis Directory Hub and Traxis Directory Engine: All Sun platforms with Sun OS 4.1.3 currently supported, Solaris 2.x in 1994. Industry standard PC platforms with SCO Open Desktop V3 currently supported. Other UNIX platforms in 1994. Windows NT in 1994. Traxis Desktop Client and applications: PC with Windows 3.1 currently supported. Macintosh Systems 6 and 7, UNIX Motif, DOS, X Windows, and others planned for 1994. AVAILABILITY The Traxis Enterprise Directory is commercially available from: Angeli Systems Corporation 1659 Eleventh Street Santa Monica, CA 90404 +1 310 392 3000 +1 310 392 4700 FAX info@angeli.com DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED November 23rd, 1993
NAME UCOM.X 500 (tm) - E3.X [DSA and DUA] KEYWORDS 386, API, Bull, CLNS, Commercially Available, DEC ULTRIX, DSA Connectivity, DSA/DUA, DUA Connectivity, IBM RISC, Motif, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OpenLook, RFC-1006, RFC-1274, RFC-1277, RFC-1278, RFC-1279, Sequent, Sun, Tandem, UNIX, X.25 ABSTRACT UCOM.X 500 includes a Directory System Agent (DSA), various directory access APIs and Directory User Agents (DUAs). UCOM.X 500 is a product based on PIZARRO, the research prototype developed at INRIA by Christian Huitema's team, and commercialized by TS-E3X, a member of the France Telecom group. Characteristics of the DSA are: - The DAP and DSP protocols are provided conformant with X.500 (88). - The DIB is maintained in ASN.1 encoded format in the Unix file system. Utilities are provided to load and dump the DIB from and to ASCII text files. - The DIT structure is held in main memory. Frequently used attributes may be held in inverted tables in memory to speed up searches. - Knowledge management: knowledge on managed domains is stored in UCOM.X specific attributes of the DSA entries. - Schema: The X.500 (88), X.400 (88) and most of the Cosine and Internet Schema are supported. Object class and attribute definitions are enforced. Users may define their own. - Simple authentication is provided; strong authentication and signed operations are being tested operationally through TS-E3X's participation in PASSWORD, a VALUE project with aim to pilot a European security infrastructure for network applications. - Access control: private mechanisms are provided to allow access control lists to be specified for parts of the DIT, to control modifications, and to specify access restrictions on attributes. - Management: a UCOM.X DSA object has been defined to allow operational parameters of the DSA to be managed via DAP. Administration utilities are provided to, e.g., generate usage statistics and periodically update the database from various data sources including a knowledge discovery tool. The product offers a C language API conformant to X/Open's X/DS
specification, and a C++ API (for release 10/93). The DUAs include a graphical directory browser with powerful search functionality for OpenLook and Motif, and a full-screen curses-based interface with full DAP functionality. TS-E3X's strategy for UCOM.X500 is three-fold: Firstly, to use it as the directory service for Spheris, France Telecom's range of electronic mail products based on X.400 (88) (release mid '94). Secondly, to offer it to third parties developing specific applications using X.500: current applications include a distributed application to control document transfer in a large French hospital and distributed applications management in the French Post Office; planned uses include office applications for control of document circulation (workflow) and cooperative document editing. Thirdly, to offer it to telecomms operators such as France Telecom for application in network management. UCOM.X 500 is used extensively by French research centers involved in PARADISE. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) UCOM.X 500 conforms to X.500 (88) as specified in paragraph 9 of X.519. Development of the product based on X.500 (93) is planned for '94 with release of a product conformant to the principal extensions at the end of '94. Emphasis is being placed on the shadowing protocol, the schema and access control. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS The COSINE and Internet Schema (RFC 1274) is supported with minor exceptions. The string representation of PSAPs and their internal encoding conforms to RFC 1277. The string representation of DNs will migrate to the Internet RFC 1485 definition. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs RFC 1279 (X.500 and Domains) is supported. The string representation of PSAPs and their internal encoding conforms to RFC 1278. AFRO (algorithme francais de recherche optimise), the search / name resolution algorithm proposed by UCOM.X 500, differs from the UFN algorithm principally in that it attempts to optimize by performing
read operations before resorting to searches in order to exploit the name error information. INTEROPERABILITY Through UCOM.X 500's use in the French PARADISE pilot, interoperability has been informally but extensively tested with Quipu and other implementations. Detailed interoperability tests with Quipu, Marben and Siemens/Bull DIR/X are being conducted by the PARADISE OIFP (Operational Interworking) team at INRIA Rocquencourt, France. The product is currently also undergoing formal tests for conformance to the CTS2 DSA/DAP and ACSE/Presentation/Session specifications at the French OSI conformance test centre. PILOT CONNECTIVITY DSA and DUA connectivity to the PARADISE pilot. BUGS UCOM.X 500 is a commercial product. As such, it is supported and bugs are fixed when detected. Bug reports can be sent to our support team via electronic mail. CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS The DIT structure and inverted attribute tables are stored in main memory. The recommended main memory size for a DSA is 1 kb per node, i.e., 10 Mb for a database of 10,000 objects. The current recommended maximum is a database size of the order of 100,000 objects. Of the selected attribute types defined in X.500 (88), the searchGuide attribute is not supported ; neither are the following attributes from the Cosine and Internet Schema (RFC 1274): OtherMailbox, MailPreferenceOption and the various quality attributes. The X/DS API supports the Basic Directory Contents (BDCP), the MHS Directory User (MDUP) and the Strong Authentication (SAP) packages with minor limitations. A proprietary mechanism for defining new classes and attributes is offered. Asynchronous operations and multiple concurrent sessions are not supported. Whilst referral may be handled automatically, continuation references are not.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT UCOM.X 500 includes a transport stack for TP0 with TCP/IP (RFC 1006) and X.25. The stack has been ported to SunNet OSI for TP4 with CLNP. HARDWARE PLATFORMS UCOM.X 500 can easily be ported to any UNIX machine. It currently runs on: Sun 3 and 4, IBM RS 6000, DEC ULTRIX (Vax and Mips), 386- based PCs, Bull DPX/2 and DPX/20, Sequent, Tandem and others. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS UCOM.X 500 is portable to any UNIX-like operating system. It has been ported to: UNIX SVR3 and SVR4, SUN OS 4, AIX, SCO Unix, Interactive Unix, ULTRIX, HP-UX, Dynix (Sequent), BOS (Bull) and others. Ports to the following are planned: OS/2 ('94), Windows 3 ('94). The product does not make use of an external DBMS for the information base. AVAILABILITY UCOM.X is commercially available. For further information contact: Pascal Duchamp, International Sales Address: TS-E3X, Le Capitole 44, avenue des Champs Pierreux, 99029 Nanterre Cedex, France Tel: (+33) 1-46-14-50-00 Fax: (+33) 1-46-14-58-16 Email: C=FR;A=atlas;P=e3x;O=e3x;OU1=paris;S=duchamp duchamp@paris.e3x.fr or: Laurence Puvilland, Marketing Email: C=fr;A=atlas;P=e3x;O=e3x;OU1=paris;S=puvilland puvilland@paris.e3x.fr or: Ascan Woermann, R&D Email: C=fr;A=atlas;P=e3x;O=e3x;S=Woermann woermann@e3x.fr DATE LAST UPDATED July, 1993
NAME Wang OPEN/services (tm) Wang Laboratories, Inc. KEYWORDS CLNS, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, DUA Interface, HP, IBM PC, IBM RISC, Limited Functionality, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, Wang, X.25 ABSTRACT Wang's X.500 products are a part of our OPEN/services product whose main features include the following: X.500 directory - Contains information about organizations, individuals, and distribution lists. The directory is the primary vehicle by which users of OPEN/office, Wang's X.400 electronic mail product, address mail. Authentication Services - Verifies the login name and password of each user logging into OPEN/services. International support - Provides character translation tables so that users can display screens containing international characters and use international collating sequences. Object management - Greatly increases the integration between OPEN/services, OPEN/office and other Windows-based applications. Activity logging - Records the activities of OPEN/services. This information can be useful for monitoring the OPEN/services processes and for troubleshooting. Database management - Provides utilities that validate and reorganize the OPEN/services databases including the Directory Information Base (DIB). OPEN/services includes a DSA, a DUA, and a DUA interface all rolled into one product. (The DUA interface protocol is private.) Wang OPEN/services consists of two parts: software installed on a server and software installed on PC clients on a LAN. The client or end-user software enables users to log in and log out; change the login password; use the OPEN/services directory; and perform various actions, such as open and print, on files in the Wang OPEN/applications and in certain third-party applications including
Microsoft Windows File Manager. The server consists of the DSA, the DUA, the Directory Information Base, the service administration programs such as login authentication, the database management utilities, and activity logging. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) Wang OPEN/services complies with the 1988 CCITT Recommendations X.500-X.521 [CCITT-88] with the following exceptions. Whole tree searches are not supported, nor does the product support chained adding, modifying, or deleting. Simple authentication is supported, but strong authentication is not. In the future, the 1992 extensions to the X.500 standard will be supported by Wang OPEN/services. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS None are supported at the present time. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs None are supported at the present time. INTEROPERABILITY The interoperability of OPEN/services with other X.500 products is untested. PILOT CONNECTIVITY Pilot connectivity between OPEN/services and the AARNET project, NADF Pilot Project, NIST Pilot Project, PARADISE, and PSI White Pages Project has not been attempted. BUGS To report problems with Wang OPEN/services, contact your local Wang sales office, your Wang authorized reseller or call your regional support center. (In the USA, the number is 404-432-9001). CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS None
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT Wang OPEN/services currently runs in the following environments: RFC1006 with TCP/IP, TP4 with CNLS, TP0 with X.25 and SLIP. HARDWARE PLATFORMS Server Requirements Installing Wang OPEN/services Server requires the following hardware: a Wang RISC Series Server 220 or greater, or an IBM RISC System/6000(tm) with a minimum of 32 MB of memory, or a Hewlett- Packard 9000 Series 800 system with a minimum of 32 MB of memory. For each system a minimum of 20 MB of free disk space in a file system is required. Client Requirements Installing OPEN/services for Windows requires the following hardware: a 386/SX CPU or later, at least 4 MB of memory, a hard disk drive with at least 2.5 MB of disk space, and a VGA monitor. A pointing device is not required to run OPEN/services but is strongly recommended. Network Requirements OPEN/services has the following network requirements: 802.3 or 802.5 LAN, network interface cards (NICs) to support TCP/IP on client PCs, Ethernet or token ring adapters on the servers, and optionally X.25 cards on the servers. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS Server Requirements Installing Wang OPEN/services Server requires the following software: AIX Operating System, release 3.2.3 or later, with bundled support for the TCP/IP protocol suite, or HP-UX Operating System, Release 9.0 or later. Client Requirements OPEN/services for Windows requires the following software: Microsoft MS-DOS(tm) Operating System, Release 5.0 or later and Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later.
AVAILABILITY
Wang OPEN/services is commercially available from:
Wang Laboratories, Inc.
1 Industrial Avenue
Lowell, Massachusetts 01851
Phone: 508-967-6114
FAX: 508-967-1105
To obtain OPEN/services, contact your local Wang sales office, your
Wang authorized reseller or call 1-800-NEW-WANG.
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
December 6th, 1993
NAME Xdi - DUA Bellcore KEYWORDS Available via FTP, DUA Connectivity, DUA Only, Free, Limited Functionality, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, RFC-1274, RFC-1484, Source, Sun, UNIX, X Window System ABSTRACT Xdi is a Directory User Agent (DUA) for the X Window System. In addition to providing a user-friendly interface, it supports Directory interactions of different levels of complexity. Users can select different window screens to browse, search and modify the Directory. There are two different search screens for name based search and attribute based search. It is simple to use for novice users but is also useful for more advanced users to formulate complex search filters. Xdi also supports "user-friendly naming" in many cases so that users are not required to know X.500 naming format. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) 88 standard compliant: Delete and Add operations, and strong authentication not implemented. There are no facilities to modify the RDNs of entries. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS RFC 1274 is supported. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs RFC 1484 is supported. INTEROPERABILITY Believed to be interoperable with other DSAs. Only tested against ISODE/QUIPU DSAs. PILOT CONNECTIVITY DUA Connectivity
BUGS Send bug reports to sywuu@thumper.bellcore.com CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT Same as ISODE. HARDWARE PLATFORMS This software has been tested on SUN4. It is expected that the software is portable to SUN3 and other UNIX machines. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS Xdi is expected to run on ISODE (release 7.0 upwards) in UNIX environment. The 'xdi' directory has been designed to fit directly into the ISODE source tree. Xdi requires X11R4, the associated Xt toolkit and Athena widget libraries. Also see the operating environments of ISODE. AVAILABILITY The Xdi software is available via anonymous FTP from thumper.bellcore.com in file pub/xdi.tar.Z. Source code and executables can be freely distributed or modified for non-commercial and non-profit use provided that all copyright notices, permission and nonwarranty notice included in the software distribution remain intact. For further information contact Sze-Ying Wuu at sywuu@thumper.bellcore.com. DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED March 18th, 1993
NAME XLU Brunel University, UK KEYWORDS DUA Connectivity, DUA Only, Free, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, Source, UNIX, X Window System ABSTRACT XLU (X LookUp) is an X.500 DUA interface for the X Window System. XLU can be configured for many different styles of interaction. Example configurations are provided for single window and multiple window use. XLU implements the `User-Friendly Naming' search strategy and also has a form-filling search mode. Asynchronous directory operations are used. Full user friendly add and modify functions are provided, with the ability to tailor the modify screen to present simple subsets of the available attributes. COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) 88 Standard compliant: Strong authentication not yet implemented. No plans for support of the 1992 Standard. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS No plans at present. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs No plans at present. INTEROPERABILITY [No information provided--Ed.]
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA Connectivity: The interface is in use in the UK Academic
Directory Pilot.
BUGS
Bugs should be reported to x500@brunel.ac.uk.
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As ISODE.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
MIT X11R5 libraries
ISODE/QUIPU (version 8.0 >)
AVAILABILITY
Sources are freely available for commercial or non-commercial use.
Contacts.
Postal Address:
Andrew Findlay
Computing and Media Systems
Brunel University
Cleveland Road
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
UK
E-mail: x500@brunel.ac.uk.
Fax: +44 895 32806 (Andrew Findlay)
Telephone: +44 895 203066 (Andrew Findlay)
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED March 1st, 1993
NAME XT-DUA NEXOR KEYWORDS Bull, CLNS, Commercially Available, DUA Connectivity, DUA Only, HP, IBM RISC, ICL, Motif, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OpenLook, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, RFC-1274, RFC-1277, RFC-1278, RFC-1484, Solbourne, Sun, X Window System, X.25 ABSTRACT XT-DUA provides a X-Windows based user interface to the X.500 Directory. Both Motif and OpenLook styles are supported. Browsing features include: - Passing of user address information to the XT-MUA X.400 user agent. - History - allowing quick access to previously referenced parts of the DIT. - Customizable entry display - allowing subsets of attributes be displayed when showing an entry. - User Friendly Name (UFN) based searching - Hypertext-like navigation. - Support for application entities e.g. startup of ftam session. - User defined name for attribute labels. - Support for photo and audio attributes. - Attribute value on scanline. - Intelligent choice of entries to display when moving to a new location in the DIT. Management features include: - Creation of new entries. - Modification of existing entries (including RDN) - based on Quipu EDB format. - Deletion of entries. - Friendly editor of modifying Quipu ACLs. - Rebinding - authenticated and to named DSA. - Full configuration of DAP request parameters
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) Compliant with X.500(88), and NIST SIA version 2 except X.509 strong authentication not implemented (under development). NEXOR is committed to migrate XT-DUA to the 1992 standards. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS The following are supported: RFC 1274 and RFC 1277. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs The following are supported: UFN [RFC 1484] and RFC 1278. INTEROPERABILITY XT-DUA has interoperated with all DSAs used in the PARADISE pilot. PILOT CONNECTIVITY Full DUA connectivity to the PARADISE and PSI White Pages X.500 Pilots. BUGS No known bugs. Support is given via phone or email to "support@nexor.co.uk" CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS None. INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT OSI TP4 with CLNP, OSI TP0 with X.25 or CONS, and RFC 1006 with TCP/IP HARDWARE PLATFORMS Sun Solbourne IBM RS/6000 Bull DPX 6000 HP Apollo 9000
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
SunOs 4.1.x
AIX 3.2
HP-UX 9.01
Windows 3.1 (over LDAP)
Other ports planned include SCO Unix and ICL DRS6000.
AVAILABILITY
XT-DUA is commercial software. For more details contact:
XT-DUA Sales
NEXOR
8 Faraday Building
Highfields Science Park
Nottingham
NG7 2QP
UK
DN: c=GB@o=NEXOR Ltd
Telephone: +44 602 520500
Fax: +44 602 520519
E-Mail: sales@nexor.co.uk
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
August 2nd, 1993
NAME XT-QUIPU NEXOR KEYWORDS Bull, CLNS, Commercially Available, DSA Connectivity, DSA Only, HP, IBM RISC, ICL, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, RFC-1274, RFC-1276, RFC-1277, RFC-1278, RFC-1279, RFC-1484, RFC-1485, Solbourne, Sun, X.25 ABSTRACT XT-QUIPU is an X.500(88) DSA. Characteristics of the DSA are: - Full DAP access - Full DSP access - Support for X.400, X.500, and RFC 1274 attributes and object classes - Approximate match based on Soundex. - Flexible schema management - RFC 1276 Replication - Attribute level access control - Search and list access control - Knowledge management mapped onto DIT - Attribute inheritance - Caching - Remote management COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs) Compliant with X.500(88), and NIST SIA version 2 except X.509 strong authentication not implemented (under development). NEXOR is committed to migrate XT-QUIPU to the 1992 standards. CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS The following are supported: String DN format [RFC 1485], RFC 1274, RFC 1276, and RFC 1277. CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs The following are supported: UFN [RFC 1484], RFC 1278, and RFC 1279.
INTEROPERABILITY XT-QUIPU interoperates will all DSAs used in the PARADISE pilot. PILOT CONNECTIVITY XT-QUIPU DSAs are fully connected to the PARADISE and PSI White Pages X.500 Pilots. BUGS No known bugs. Support is given via phone or email to "support@nexor.co.uk" CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS None. INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT OSI TP4 wtih CLNP OSI TP0 with X.25 or CONS RFC 1006 with TCP/IP HARDWARE PLATFORMS Sun Solbourne IBM RS/6000 Bull DPX 6000 ICL DRS/6000 HP Apollo 9000 SOFTWARE PLATFORMS SunOs 4.1.x AIX 3.2 DRS/NX 6000 HP-UX 9.01 Other ports planned include SCO Unix. AVAILABILITY XT-QUIPU is commercial software. For more details contact:
XT-QUIPU Sales
NEXOR
8 Faraday Building
Highfields Science Park
Nottingham
NG7 2QP
UK
DN: c=GB@o=NEXOR Ltd
Telephone: +44 602 520500
Fax: +44 602 520519
E-Mail: sales@nexor.co.uk
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
August 2nd, 1993
4. References [CCITT-88] CCITT, "Data Communications Networks Directory", Recommendations X.500-X.521, Volume VIII - Fascicle VIII.8, IXth Plenary Assembly, Melbourne, November 1988. [NIST-88] National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Stable Implementation Agreements for Open Systems Interconnection Protocols", Version 2 Edition 1, NIST Special Publication 500-162, December 1988. [RFC 1202] Rose, M., "Directory Assistance Service", RFC 1202, Performance Systems International, Inc., February 1991. [RFC 1249] Howes, T., Smith, M., and B. Beecher, "DIXIE Protocol Specification", RFC 1249, University of Michigan, August 1991. [RFC 1274] Barker, P., and S. Kille, "The COSINE and Internet X.500 Schema", RFC 1274, University College, London, England, November 1991. [RFC 1275] Kille, S., "Replication Requirements to provide an Internet Directory using X.500," RFC 1275, University College, London, England, November 1991. [RFC 1276] Kille, S., "Replication and Distributed Operations extensions to provide an Internet Directory using X.500", RFC 1276, University College, London, England, November 1991. [RFC 1277] Kille, S., "Encoding Network Addresses to support operation over non-OSI lower layers", RFC 1277, University College, London, England, November 1991. [RFC 1278] Kille, S., "A string encoding of Presentation Address", RFC 1278, University College, London, England, November 1991. [RFC 1279] Kille, S., "X.500 and Domains", RFC 1279, University College, London, England, November 1991. [RFC 1484] Kille, S., "Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming", RFC 1484, ISODE Consortium, July 1993. [RFC 1485] S. Kille, "A String Representation of Distinguished
Names", RFC 1485, ISODE Consortium, July 1993.
[RFC 1487] Yeong, W., Howes, T., and S. Kille, "X.500 Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol", RFC 1487, Performance
Systems International, University of Michigan, ISODE
Consortium, July 1993.
[RFC 1488] Howes, T., Kille, S., Yeong, W., and C. Robbins, "The
X.500 String Representation of Standard Attribute
Syntaxes", RFC 1488, University of Michigan, ISODE
Consortium, Performance Systems International, NeXor
Ltd., July 1993.
5. Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
6. Editors' Addresses
Arlene F. Getchell
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
P.O. Box 5509, L-561
Livermore, CA 94551
Phone: (510) 423-6349
EMail: getchell@es.net
X.400: s=getchell;p=esnet;a= ;c=us;
Srinivas R. Sataluri
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Room 1C-429, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
P.O. Box 3030
Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030
Phone: (908) 949-7782
EMail: sri@qsun.att.com