Middleware: Directories

LDAP-Recipe

Michael R Gettes

Georgetown University

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LDAP-Recipe positioning and the NMI R1

•A special case document

•Pre-existed NMI and MACE document standards for format and naming.

•Will conform to NMI/MACE naming and future process for acceptance.

•Content??? Well, we shall see…

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LDAP-RecipeVersion 1.5 (pre May 7, 2002)

•Directory Tree

•Schema (Design, upgrading, maint)

•AuthN (binding and pw mgmt)

•eduPerson attr discussion (select)

•Access Control

•Replication

•Name population

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LDAP-RecipeVersion 2.0 (NMI R1 May 7, 2002)

•Groups, Groups, Groups• Static, Dynamic, app issues, builds on “NMI Groups Doc”

•E-Mail Routing considerations• Attribute firewalling, Sendmail, app issues

•eduPersonOrgDN and eduPerson{Primary}OrgUnitDN

• Original Intent for eduPerson 1.0 and Primary

•RDN Issues (a must read)

•Software reference (small, needs to grow)

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Next Steps…

•LDAP-Recipe (next?)

•Affiliated Directories (Rob Banz)

•pkiUser/pkiCa, Bridge CA, etc…

•Video Middleware (commObject{Uri} OCs)

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Links

http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir

http://www.nsf-middleware.org/

gettes@Georgetown.EDU

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MACE-Dir Futures

•Technical Advisory Board

•eduOrg, eduPerson, edu???????

•Shibboleth and other related work

•Roles (RBAC)

•Groups Implementations (isMemberOf)

•Blue Pages

•LDAP-Recipe (next?)

•Affiliated Directories

•pkiUser/pkiCa, Bridge CA, etc…

•Video Middleware (commObject{Uri} OCs)

•GRID interoperability

•Directory Policy

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URLs

Web.mit.edu/pismere

Nsf-middleware.org

Nmi-support@nsf-middleware.org

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