X.25
ABSTRACT
The DEC X.500 Administration Facility product provides both command
line and Motif interfaces to manage the information stored in the
X.500 directory.
Specific features provided include:
(1) Multi-protocol support allowing DAP access over OSI and
TCP/IP (using RFC1006) protocols.
(2) Driven off the same configurable schema information as the DEC
X.500 Directory Service.
(3) Supports command line and OSF Motif interface styles.
(4) Provides access to all X.500 services.
Specific features of the OSF Motif interface include:
(1) Supports two ways of accessing directory information, either by
browsing the directory tree or by searching.
(2) Easy-to-use search based on customer-extensible set of predefined
filters.
(3) Window layouts and text fully extensible, based on the schema, to
support customer-defined object classes and attributes.
(4) Easy-to-use forms based method for creating and modifying entries
that simplifies use of the X.500 services.
See also the entry for the DEC X.500 Directory Service.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
Conformance with respect to clause 9.1 of ISO/IEC 9594-5:1993:
(1) Supports the all operations of the directoryAccessAC application
context.
(2) Bind security levels of none and simple (unprotected passwords).
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
Supports RFC 1006, RFC1274, and RFC 1277.
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
RFC1278.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability test results will be available on request from
Digital. Interoperability testing is being undertaken using the
harmonized OSIone X.500 test suite to which both OSInet and EurOSInet
have been key contributors.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Digital is actively involved in both public and private pilots of
X.500.
BUGS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
The DEC X.500 Administration Facility operates over:
* RFC1006 over TCP/IP on ULTRIX platforms.
* OSI TP0, TP2 and TP4 over CLNS and CONS as appropriate on
ULTRIX and OpenVMS platforms
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The DEC X.500 Administration Facility V1.0 runs on:
* VAX processors supported by OpenVMS
* RISC processors supported by ULTRIX
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The DEC X.500 Administration Facility V1.0 runs on:
* OpenVMS/VAX V5.5-2 or later running DECnet-VAX Extensions V5.4
* ULTRIX/RISC V4.2 or later running DECnet/OSI for ULTRIX, V5.1 or
later.
For availability on other hardware and software platforms please
contact Digital.
AVAILABILITY
The DEC X.500 Administration Facility is commercially available from
Digital Equipment Corporation. For further information please
contact your local Digital office, or:
Gail Shlansky, Product Manager:
Tel: +1 508 486 5138
email: gail.shlansky@lkg.mts.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation
Networks and Communications Engineering
550 King Street
Littleton, MA. 01460-1289
USA
DATE LAST UPDATED
August 2nd, 1993
NAME
DIR.X (tm) V3.0
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
KEYWORDS
API, CLNS, Commercially Available, DSA Connectivity, DSA/DUA, DUA
Connectivity, HP, IBM RISC, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, RFC-1277, SNI,
X.25
ABSTRACT
DIR.X is the Siemens Nixdorf X.500 product on which the OSF DCE/GDS
(Distributed Computing Environment/Global Directory Service) is
based. It supports full DUA and DSA functionality for globally
unique identification and location of objects in a network. It also
provides functions to answer queries (both yellow-page and white-
page) about objects and attribute information. The software
implements full DAP and DSP protocols specified in X.519. The
required ACSE, ROSE, Presentation, Session and RFC-1006 protocol
implementations are also included. It also supports RFC-1277.
Additional features include proprietary Replication and Access
Control, Caching, Tree-handling utilities and (Remote)
Administration.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
Consists of both DUA and DSA implementations according to the CCITT
X.500 (1988) and ISO 9594 standard. The X/Open standard APIs for XDS
and XOM are provided. The XDS interface can also be used to access
the OSF DCE/CDS (DCE local Cell Directory Service) transparently.
DIR.X has been successfully conformance tested. PICS and PCTRs are
available for all tested protocols: DSA/DAP, DUA/DAP, Presentation,
ACSE and Session embedded in X.500.
Compliant with EWOS Agreements (which are being harmonized with OIW
Agreements).
Strong authentication according to X.509 and an XDS/XOM convenience
library will be included in the next version (Q2 1994). Support for
X.500 (1993) is planned for Q4 1994.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTEROPERABILITY
This implementation of DAP and DSP has successfully interoperated
with the X.500 implementations from ICL, UNISYS, E3X and ISODE.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Several DIR.X DSAs are connected to the European X.500 pilot network
PARADISE. (DUA and DSA connectivity.)
BUGS
Problems and bug-report e-mail address: dirx-info@mch.sni.de
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The software is highly portable and without any general limitations.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
OSI TP4 with CLNP OSI TP0, 2 & 4 with X.25 RFC-1006 with TCP/IP
DIR.X can use either BSD sockets or XTI/TLI to access the Transport
Service.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
SNI's hardware platforms, IBM's RS/6000 and Hewlett Packard's HP9000
among others.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
SINIX (UNIX System V Release 4), OSF/1.1, AIX 3.1, HP-UX. A port to
Windows-NT is planned for Q2 1994.
AVAILABILITY
DIR.X can be delivered as a binary product or as source to OEM
customers. The DIR.X product is commercially available from:
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
SNI BU BA NM 12
D-81739 Munich
Germany
Please contact:
Gianni Rabaioli
Tel: +49 89 636 41095
Fax: +49 89 636 45860
e-mail: Giovanni.Rabaioli@mch.sni.de
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
November 26th, 1993
NAME
Directory 500 (tm)
OSIware / Infonet Software Solutions
KEYWORDS
Commercially Available, DS/DUA, RFC-1006, Source, Sun, X.25
ABSTRACT
Directory 500 (D500) is a comprehensive implementation of the CCITT
X.500 recommendations. D500 is comprised of two major components
which are responsible for manipulating the data in the OSI Directory.
They are the Directory User Agent (DUA) and the Directory System
Agent (DSA).
The DUA is the interface between the OSI Directory and those users
wishing access to the Directory's information. Users make their
requests through the DUA. When forwarding user's requests to the OSI
Directory, the protocol used is known as the Directory Access
Protocol (DAP).
The DSA will negotiate with other, remote DSAs to obtain requested
information or to update remote DIBs. DSAs use the Directory System
Protocol (DSP) to forward and answer these requests. The DSA supports
chaining and referrals.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
All X.500 1988 operations are supported along with all Object Classes
specified in X.521 and all Attribute Types specified in X.520.
Implementation plans include upgrades to support the 1992 extensions
to X.500 in 1994. Please check with OSIware / Infonet Software
Solutions for availability dates.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTEROPERABILITY
Tested with QUIPU. Other interoperability information not available
at this time.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
None known at this time.
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None known at this time.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC1006 with TCP/IP
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Any Sun SPARC with 16 MB memory, 40 MB free disk Please enquire if
interested in other platforms such as: SCO Unix, AIX
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Sun OS 4.1.x. Runs over TCP/IP, or X.25 (SunNet X.25 Version 7
required)
AVAILABILITY
Directory 500 is commercially as executable object code or as source
code form from:
OSIware / Infonet Software Solutions
4400 Dominion Street, Suite 210
Burnaby, BC V5G 4G3
CANADA
Sales & Information: 604436-2922
Fax: 604/436-3192
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
November 21st, 1993
NAME
DOS-DE
University of Bath
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DUA Interface, Free, IBM PC, LDAP, Multiple Vendor
Platforms, RFC-1274, RFC-1484, RFC-1487
ABSTRACT
DOS-DE (DOS Directory Enquiries) is intended to be a simple-to-use
DUA interface suitable for the naive user. It is an MS-DOS port of
the standard UNIX DE implementation - see the entry on DE for full
details. (All of the features DE are supported apart from the
experimental `Quality of Service' code).
The user is presented with a series of (verbose) prompts asking for
person's name; department; organization; country. There is extensive
on-line help. The matching algorithms are such that near matches are
presented to the user before less good matches. `Power searching' is
also available - this allows a user to search for an entry even when
they do not know the name of the organisation in which the person
works - you still have to specify the country. DOS-DE provides UFN
style searching. It is also possible to search locality entries.
DOS-DE uses slightly different search algorithms depending on whether
it is accessing part of the Directory mastered by a Quipu DSA - Quipu
DSAs tend to use lots of replication and so encourage searching.
DOS-DE runs over the University of Michigan LDAP.
DE was funded by the COSINE PARADISE project. DOS-DE was developed
by Andy Powell at the University of Bath.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
N/A
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
[RFC 1274] and [RFC1487]
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
[RFC 1484].
INTEROPERABILITY
N/A
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
N/A
BUGS
Doesn't handle aliases well when power searching.
Send bug reports to:
A.Powell@bath.ac.uk
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
DOS-DE tries to cater well for the general case, at the expense of
not dealing with the less typical. The main manifestation of this is
that the current version does not handle searching under localities
very well.
It is not possible to display photographs or reproduce sound
attributes.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
University of Michigan LDAP.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
IBM PC/AT/XT and compatibles.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
LDAP for MS-DOS running over the NCSA Telnet stack or SUN's PCNFS
version 4.1 or Novell's LAN Workplace (LWP).
AVAILABILITY
The software is openly available by FTP from ftp.bath.ac.uk, as
pub/x500/dosde.zip.
The very latest code will be made available with the ISODE Consortium
release of ISODE. It is hoped it will be freely available to all.
Contact:
A.Powell@bath.ac.uk
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
March 18th, 1993
NAME
HP X.500 Distributed Directory Products
Hewlett Packard
KEYWORDS
API, CLNS, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, DUA only, HP, OSI
Transport, X.25
ABSTRACT
HP X.500 Distributed Directory. Its main components are:
DUA, and DUA Interface,
DSA and DIB support,
X.500 Address Lookup,
X/Open Application Tool Kit API (XAT) for XDS/XOM Interface,
X.500 High Level API (X5HLAPI) for XDS/XOM Interface.
HP X.500 DUA. Its main components are:
DUA, and DUA Interface,
X.500 Address Look-up,
X/Open Application Tool Kit API (XAT) for XDS/XOM Interface,
X.500 High Level API (X5HLAPI) for XDS/XOM Interface.
HP X.500 Distributed Directory is based on the 1988 CCITT X.500
standard. HP X.500 can be used for accessing names and electronic
mail addresses for multi-vendor messaging backbone networks. HP X.500
can also be used for the development of networked applications
requiring distributed directory functionality.
HP OpenMail users can access the enterprise wide HP X.500 distributed
directory directly from the HP OpenMail user interface, and select
X.500 addresses for mailing. HP-UX Sendmail users can access
electronic mail addresses from a X.500 server over a TCP/IP network.
Users of non-HP e-mail systems can access data stored in the X.500
Directory using X.500 Address Look-up. X.500 Address Look-up has an
easy to use interface, and phonetic search capability.
HP X.500 Distributed Directory includes a complete multi-threaded DUA
and DSA. The X.500 DIB is built on a database which has been
optimized for X.500 performance. HP X.500 contains full support for
DAP and DSP protocols.
Data Shadowing and security access control of HP X.500 Distributed
Directory allow higher performance, and easier management of its DIB
database in a global environment.
HP X.500 Distributed Directory has menu driven administration and
user interface tools. The tools simplify directory configuration and
data retrieval. It supports X/Open X.500 APIs (XDS and XOM), and high
level APIs on top of XDS to allow developers to write their own X.500
based applications.
HP X.500 Distributed Directory supports comprehensive tracing and
logging facilities for quick diagnosis and resolution of problems. HP
also provides a rich set of troubleshooting tools to check the
interoperability of the network at various layers of the OSI stack.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
HP X.500 Distributed Directory complies with the following standards:
CCITT X.501: The Directory - Models
CCITT X.509: The Directory - Authentications Framework*
CCITT X.511: The Directory - Abstract Service Definition
CCITT X.518: The Directory - Procedures for Distributed Operations
CCITT X.519: The Directory - Protocol Specifications
CCITT X.520: The Directory - Selected Attribute Types
CCITT X.521: The Directory - Selected Object Classes
CCITT X.219: Remote Operations - Model, Notation and Service
Definition
CCITT X.229: Remote Operations - Protocol Specifications
*x.509 describes simple and strong authentication. HP X.500
Distributed Directory supports simple authentication. Strong
authentication is not supported in the current release due to
limited market demand.
HP X.500 Distributed Directory will comply with NIST and EWOS
directory functional profiles. Based on factors such as market needs
and NIST recommendations, HP will implement subsets of 1992 CCITT
functionality in a phased approach.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTEROPERABILITY
HP has done some unofficial interoperability testing. HP would
welcome suggestions on priorities for vendor interoperability
testing.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
[No information provided--Ed.]
BUGS
[No information provided--Ed.]
LIMITATIONS
HP X.500 Distributed Directory supports up to 30 DSA connections at
one time. This limit could be increased in the future if needed.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
HP X.500 Distributed Directory resides on an OSI stack, and can be
used in 802.3 LAN, or X.25 CLNS or CONS environment. HP is
investigating implementing X.500 for the TCP/IP environment.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
HP X.500 Distributed Directory is available on HP 9000 Series 800
family of high performance servers which are scalable platform.
The HP X.500 Address Look-up facility is also available for the HP
9000 Series 300 and Series 700 for customers who have purchased the
X.500 product.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
HP X.500 Distributed Directory requires the following software
environment:
- HP-UX Operating System 8.0 or later
- OSI Transport Services/9000 for the Series 800
- HP Lan Link or HP X.25 product
- Network Tracing and Logging
- ANSI C compiler (for the HP/XDS API)
AVAILABILITY
HP X.500 Distributed Directory is commercial available. The product
can be ordered through HP Sales offices. The ordering numbers are:
P/N J2152A
HP X.500 Distributed Directory/9000 for the Series 800.
Product contains DSA server and DUA client.
P/N J2153A
HP X.500 DUA/9000 for the Series 800.
Product contains only DUA client.
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
August 16th, 1993.
NAME
University of Michigan LDAP Implementation
KEYWORDS
API, Available via FTP, DEC ULTRIX, DUA Connectivity, DUA Interface,
Free, HP, IBM PC, IBM RISC, LDAP, Macintosh, Multiple Vendor
Platforms, RFC-1006, RFC-1274, RFC-1484, RFC-1485, RFC-1487, Source,
Sun
ABSTRACT
LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It gives X.500
access to platforms that have only TCP/IP access, using simplified
BER encoding of many X.500 data elements. LDAP is currently a
proposed Internet Standard. The LDAP server is an intermediate
protocol server that communicates with Internet clients on one side
using the simple TCP-based LDAP protocol and an X.500 DSA on the
other side using the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). A subset of
the X.500 DAP is exported to the clients through the LDAP protocol.
The U-M LDAP distribution contains the following components:
- LDAP server
- LDAP client library, including both synchronous and asynchronous APIs
- Lightweight BER library, including an API that supports
a printf/scanf-like interface
- Various LDAP client programs, including a finger daemon (xfingerd),
gopher to X.500 gateway (go500gw), command-line DUA (ud), e-mail
query server (rcpt500), and an X.500 mailer (mail500)
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
The U-M LDAP distribution is a complete implementation of the LDAP
protocol. The LDAP protocol does not support access to all X.500
features and operations. The operations supported are bind, search,
compare, add, delete, modify, modify RDN, and abandon. Note that
read and list operations can be emulated using the search operation.
Size and time limits may be specified, as may alias dereferencing and
searching, but all X.500 service controls are not supported.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
Compliant with [RFC1485], [RFC1487], and [RFC1274].
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
Preliminary support is included for [RFC1484].
INTEROPERABILITY
The current implementation of the LDAP server is known to work with
the QUIPU DSA and DAP library.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA connectivity should be possible to all pilots, though only
AARNET, PARADISE, and PSI White Pages Project have actually been
tried.
BUGS
Bug reports should be sent to bug-ldap@umich.edu.
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None, aside from those mentioned above under completeness.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
LDAP clients use TCP to communicate with the LDAP server. The LDAP
server normally uses RFC1006 with TCP/IP to communicate with the
DSA, though any other transport mechanism for DSA communication
supported by ISODE should be possible.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The LDAP server is known to run on Sun 3 and Sun 4 platforms DEC's,
HP's, and RS 6000's. The LDAP client libraries and some clients have
been ported to the Macintosh and the PC.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The LDAP server and clients are known to run under and SunOS 4.1.x,
ULTRIX, HP-UX, and AIX. The LDAP client libraries also work under
Macintosh System 6.0 or higher and MS-DOS 5.0.
AVAILABILITY
This software is openly available. It may be obtained by anonymous
FTP from terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu in the x500 directory.
Documentation on the LDAP and lightweight BER libraries is provided
in the form of man pages distributed with the source code. More
information can be obtained from ldap-support@umich.edu.
This software was developed at the University of Michigan by Tim
Howes with help from Mark Smith and Bryan Beecher, as well as many
others around the Internet. It is subject to the following
copyright.
Copyright (c) 1993 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights
reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are
permitted provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit
is given to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The name of the
University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission. This
software is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
DATE LAST UPDATED OR CHECKED
March 13th, 1993
NAME
ldap-whois++
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DEC ULTRIX, DUA Interface, Free, LDAP, RFC-1487,
Sun, UNIX
ABSTRACT
ldap-whois++ is a dua interface that implements the IETF WNILS draft
whois++ proposal using the LDAP libraries developed by the University
of Michigan.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
N/A
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
RFC1487
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
IETF WNILS WG Whois++ Architecture Draft.
INTEROPERABILITY
N/A
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
There are a number of servers running across the Internet.
BUGS
None reported.
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Based on an early draft of the Whois++ Architecture Document so there
may be some inconsistencies with the latest draft.
It is considered a "beta" release due to the volatility of the
whois++ work. Once there is a whois++ RFCthen a real release will
be made.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
N/A
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
DEC RISC, SUN RISC
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
ULTRIX 4.3, SunOS 4.1.x
AVAILABILITY
Available via anonymous ftp from ftp.adelaide.edu.au as
pub/whois/whois++beta.tar.Z.
DATE LAST UPDATED or CHECKED
August 3rd, 1993
NAME
University of Michigan maX.500 Macintosh DUA Interface
KEYWORDS
Available via FTP, DUA Connectivity, DUA Interface, Free, LDAP,
Macintosh, RFC-1274,RFC-1484, RFC-1485, RFC-1487
ABSTRACT
maX.500 is a Directory User Agent for Apple Macintosh. It is
currently at version 2.0, which uses the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP) over TCP/IP to access The Directory. maX.500 can be
used to search for, view, create, delete, and modify entries. It
supports viewing of textual information, playing of audio, and
viewing of black and white (fax) and color (JPEG) images.
maX.500 is a native Macintosh application, and as such has a friendly
interface. It requires System Software version 6.0.5 or later and
Apple's MacTCP control panel.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
maX.500 works over LDAP, and is subject to LDAP's limitations. The
X.500 bind, search, compare, add, delete, abandon, and modify
operations are used by maX.500. Size and time limits may be
specified, as may alias dereferencing and searching.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
Compliant with [RFC1485], [RFC1487], and [RFC1274].
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
Preliminary support is included for [RFC1484] (same as U-M LDAP).
INTEROPERABILITY
maX.500 2.0 is known to work with the U-M LDAP server. It has been
used successfully with the QUIPU DSA and others.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DUA connectivity should be possible to all pilots, though only
AARNET, PARADISE, and PSI White Pages Project have actually been
tried.
BUGS
Bug reports should be sent to max500-bugs@umich.edu.
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
maX.500 does not support modification of "photo" (fax), "jpegPhoto",
or "audio" attributes. Modify RDN is also unsupported.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
maX.500 is an LDAP client, and as such is uses TCP to communicate
with the LDAP server. Apple's MacTCP control panel is required on
the Macintosh.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
maX.500 runs on Apple Macintosh Plus or later computers. It requires
1MB of RAM.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
maX.500 requires Apple System Software 6.0.5 or later (System 7
preferred) and MacTCP 1.1 or later (1.1.1 preferred).
AVAILABILITY
This software is openly available. It may be obtained by anonymous
FTP from terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu in the x500 directory. More
information can be obtained from ldap-support@umich.edu.
This software was developed at the University of Michigan by Mark
Smith with help from Tim Howes and many others around the Internet.
It is subject to the following copyright:
Copyright (c) 1993 Regents of the University of Michigan. All
rights reserved. Redistribution and use in binary forms is
permitted provided that this notice is preserved and that due
credit is given to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The
name of the University may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission. This software is provided ``as is'' without express or
implied warranty.
DATE LAST UPDATED OR CHECKED
July 26th, 1993
NAME
MXLU
Brunel University, UK
KEYWORDS
DUA Connectivity, DUA Only, Free, Motif, Multiple Vendor Platforms,
Needs ISODE, Source, UNIX, X Window System
ABSTRACT
MXLU (Motif/X LookUp) is an X.500 DUA interface for the X Window
System using Motif.
Ported from the Athena widgets version, MXLU can be configured for
many different styles of interaction. Example configurations are
provided for single window and multiple window use.
MXLU 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.
Can also be configured as a bibliographic search tool for use with
the ABDUX Project bibliographic DSAs.
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
Tested with ISODE-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 modification of all known attribute syntaxes. In
particular, ACLs and O/R addresses are not catered for.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As ISODE.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
Motif 1.1 >
ISODE/QUIPU (version 8.0 >)
AVAILABILITY
Sources are freely available for commercial or non-commercial use.
Binaries for SunOs 4.1.3 are also available from Brunel, to simplify
installation on sites that do not already use ISODE.
FTP site: src.brunel.ac.uk
Directory: /x500
Source code files: mxlu-1.1.tar.Z query-1.1.tar.Z
Binary file: mxlubin-1.1.tar.Z
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 10th, 1994
NAME
PathWay Messaging
KEYWORDS
386, CLNS, Commercially Available, DSA Connectivity, DSA/DUA, DUA
Connectivity, DUA Interface, IBM PC, LDAP, Macintosh, Multiple Vendor
Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, RFC-1202, RFC-1277, RFC-1278,
Sun, X.25
ABSTRACT
PathWay Messaging Services is a full X.400 MTA and X.400-Internet
gateway that includes an integrated X.500 DSA/DUA. It supports full
DUA and DSA functions as well as full DAP and DSP protocols specified
in X.519. The DSA may be used exclusively for enterprise-wide
messaging, or as a general purpose X.500 DSA. The product has
successfully participated in OSInet X.500 I-Lab interoperability
tests.
PathWay Messenger is an email application for desktop class machines
with a limited functionality DUA Light Weight Client that provides
access (per RFC1202, Directory Assistance Service - support for LDAP
is planned) over TCP/IP to the X.500 DSA/DUA included with PathWay
Messaging Services.
COMPLIANCE (applicable only for DSAs and DUAs)
PathWay Messaging Services is a complete implementation of the 1988
X.500 Recommendations with the exception of strong authentication as
outlined in X.509. It is conformant to NIST, EWOS, and UK GOSIP
Directory profiles. It provides network through application layer
protocol support, with support for all attribute types, syntaxes, and
object classes defined in X.520 and X.521. Support for 1992
extensions to X.500 is planned for future release as is support for
X/Open Object Management (OM) and X/Open Directory Services (XDS)
standards.
CONFORMANCE WITH PROPOSED INTERNET STANDARDS
PathWay Messaging Services' X.500 supports the following Internet
Proposals: [RFC1277].
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
PathWay Messaging Services' X.500 supports the following Internet
Proposals: [RFC1202] and [RFC1278].
INTEROPERABILITY
PathWay Messaging Services has undergone successful interoperability
testing with Control Data, DEC, HP, and the ISODE Consortium using
EurOSInet test suites.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Tested DUA and DSA connectivity with PARADISE and PSI White Pages
Project.
BUGS
Send bug reports to:
prod-eng@twg.com
CAVEATS and GENERAL LIMITATIONS
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC1006 with TCP/IP, TP4 with CNLS, TP0/2 or TP4 with X.25.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
PathWay Messaging Services runs on all models of Sun SPARC and
generic 386/486 systems. PathWay Messenger (email with lightweight
DUA) also runs on Macintosh, and on IBM PC/AT and compatibles.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
PathWay Messaging Services supports SunOS 4.1.2, Solaris 1.0.1, and
SunSoft INTERACTIVE UNIX. PathWay Messenger also supports SCO, MacOS
and MS-Windows.
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: RFC1487
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 (RFC1484).
- 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
RFC1274 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], [RFC1487], [RFC 1274], [RFC1276], [RFC 1277].
CONSISTENCE WITH INFORMATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RFCs
[RFC 1484], [RFC1275], [RFC 1278], [RFC1279].
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