RFC 1292
A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
NAME QUIPU ISODE LAST MODIFIED July, 1991 KEYWORDS API, Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, CLNP, DEC Ultrix, DSA/DUA, Free, HP, MIPS, Macintosh, Multiple Vendor Platforms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, Source, Sun, UNIX, X Window System, X.25 ABSTRACT QUIPU is part of the ISODE which is an openly available implementa- tion of the upper layers of OSI. QUIPU provides a X.500 Directory System Agent (DSA) and a set of Directory User Agents (DUA) aimed at different terminal types and modes of interaction QUIPU was first publicly demonstrated at ESPRIT in November 1988. QUIPU is being used extensively in the European PARADISE project, the White Pages Pilot Project and the Australian pilot. A QUIPU DSA is being used at the ROOT node of the Pilot DIT and is being used as most country level DSAs. QUIPU provides its own solutions to area not specified by the 1988 standards such as replication and access control. COMPLETENESS QUIPU is aligned to the 1988 ISO IS and the NIST OIW Directory Imple- mentors Guide Version 1, with the following exceptions: Strong authentication is not implemented. 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 opera- tion 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 ``origina-
tor'' 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
recognized 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.
INTEROPERABILITY
QUIPU has interworked with a number of other implementations, and has
no know problems in such interworking.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
QUIPU is in use in many directory pilots, certainly including PARAD-
ISE and the White Pages Pilot Project.
BUGS
Problems should be reported to quipu-support@cs.ucl.ac.uk.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
QUIPU users TP0 over X.25, CONS and TCP (using RFC-1006) or TP4 over
SunLink OSI.
The DSA knows about the problems of unconnected networks and makes
chain/refer choices based on the network connectivity. Using this an
X.25 only DSA can access data from an Internet only DSA by chaining
operations through a DSA connected to both networks.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
[No information provided--Ed.]
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The ISODE and QUIPU runs on native Berkeley (4.2, 4.3) and AT&T Sys-
tem V, in addition to various other UNIX-like operating systems. No
kernel modifications are required.
AVAILABILITY
The ISODE is not proprietary, but it is not in the public domain.
This was necessary to include a "hold harmless" clause in the
release. The upshot of all this is that anyone can get a copy of the
release and do anything they want with it, but no one takes any
responsibility whatsoever for any (mis)use.
DISTRIBUTION SITES
The FTP or FTAM distributions of ISODE-7.0 consists of 3 files. The
source and main ISODE-7.0 distribution is in the file isode-7.tar.Z
which is approximately 4.7MB in size.
LaTeX source for the entire document set can be found in the isode-
7-doc.tar.Z file (3.5MB). A list of documents can be found in the
doc/ directory of the source tree.
A Postscript version of the five volume manual can be found in the
isode-7-ps.tar.Z file (4.7MB).
1. FTP
If you can FTP to the Internet, then use anonymous FTP to
uu.psi.com [136.161.128.3] to retrieve the files in BINARY
mode from the isode/ directory.
2. NIFTP
If you run NIFTP over the public X.25 or over JANET, and are
registered in the NRS at Salford, you can use NIFTP with usen-
rame "guest" and your own name as password, to access
UK.AC.UCL.CS to retrieve the files from the <SRC> directory
3. FTAM on the JANET, IXI or PSS
The sources are available by FTAM from UCL over X.25 using
JANET (DTE 00000511160013),
IXI (DTE 20433450420113) or
PSS (DTE 23421920030013)
all with TSEL "259" (ASCII encoding). Use the "anon" user-
identity and retrieve the files from the src/ directory. The
file service is provided by the FTAM implementation in ISODE
6.0 or later (IS FTAM).
4. NORTH AMERICA
For mailings in NORTH AMERICA, send a check for 375 US Dollars
to:
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
Moore School
Attn: David J. Farber (ISODE Distribution)
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6314
US
+1 215 898 8560
Specify either (a) 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape, or (b) Sun 1/4-inch
cartridge tape. The tape will be written in tar format and
returned with a documentation set. Do not send tapes or
envelopes. Documentation only is the same price.
5. EUROPE (tape and documentation)
For mailings in EUROPE, send a cheque or bankers draft and a
purchase order for 200 Pounds Sterling to:
Department of Computer Science
Attn: Natalie May/Dawn Bailey
University College London
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT
UK
For information only:
Telephone: +44 71 380 7214
Fax: +44 71 387 1397
Telex: 28722
Internet: natalie@cs.ucl.ac.uk, dawn@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Specify either (a) 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape, or (b) Sun 1/4-inch
cartridge tape. The tape will be written in tar format and
returned with a documentation set. Do not send tapes or
envelopes. Documentation only is the same price.
7. EUROPE (tape only)
Tapes without hardcopy documentation can be obtained via the
European Forum for Open Systems (EurOpen, formerly known as
EUUG). The ISODE 7.0 distribution is called EurOpenD14.
EurOpen Software Distributions
c/o Frank Kuiper
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
For information only:
Telephone: +31 20 5924121 (or: +31 20 5929333)
Telex: 12571 mactr nl
Telefax: +31 20 5924199
Internet: euug-tapes@cwi.nl
Specify one of:
- 1600bpi 1/2-inch tape: 140 Dutch Guilders
- Sun 1/4-inch cartridge tape (QIC-24 format):
200 Dutch Guilders
If you require DHL this is possible and will be billed
through. Note that if you are not a member of EurOpen, then
there is an additional handling fee of 300 Dutch Guilders
(please enclose a copy of your membership or contribution pay-
ment form when ordering). Do not send money, cheques, tapes
or envelopes, you will be invoiced.
8. PACIFIC RIM
For mailings in the Pacific Rim, send a cheque for 300 dollars
Australian to:
Isode Distribution
(Attn Andrew Waugh)
723 Swanston St,
Carlton, VIC 3053
Australia
For information only:
Telephone: +61 3 282 2615
Fax: +61 3 282 2600
Internet: ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au
Please specify the media you desire: (a) 1/2-inch tape at
1600bpi, 3200bpi, or 6250bpi; or (b) Sun 1/4-inch cartridge
tape in either QIC-11, QIC-24 or QIC-150 format; or (c) Exa-
byte 2.3 Gigabyte or 5 Gigabyte format. The tape will be
written in tar format and returned with a documentation set.
Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is the
same price.
NAME SD Brunel University LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS DUA Only, Free, Included in ISODE, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, UNIX, X Window System ABSTRACT SD (Screen Directory) is an X.500 DUA interface for character mapped screens. SD is an early attempt to provide quick, easy and user friendly access to the Directory. The following directory operations are supported: read, search and list. SD does not provide any sophisticated access to the DSA. Operations are performed synchronously. The Directory is thus presented as is, i.e. a hierarchical tree of information, with the user required to "navigate" the DIT in order to locate required information. SD is available as part of the ISODE release from version 6.0 onwards. COMPLETENESS 88 standard: strong authentication not implemented INTEROPERABILITY Believed to be compliant, though untested. PILOT CONNECTIVITY DUA Connectivity: SD is in use in many directory pilots, certainly including PARADISE and the Internet. BUGS Bugs to x500@brunel.ac.uk
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TP0 over TCP/IP (as ISODE)
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
BSD curses library
ISODE/QUIPU libraries (version 6.7 upwards)
AVAILABILITY
Openly available as part of the ISODE release. Sources are freely
available for commercial or non-commercial use from:
src.brunel.ac.uk [134.83.128.3]
Files are:
x500/pod.tar.Z
x500/sd.tar.Z
Contacts:
Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk +44 1 895 74000 x 2512
Damanjit.Mahl@brunel.ac.uk +44 1 895 74000 x 2946
x500@brunel.ac.uk
Postal Address:
Andrew Findlay
Computer Centre
Brunel University
Cleveland Road,
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
NAME UCOM.X 500 (tm) E3.X LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS API, Bull, Commercially Available, DEC Ultrix, DSA/DUA, HP, IBM PC, IBM RISC, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Philips, RFC-1006, Siemens, Sun, UNIX, X.25 ABSTRACT UCOM.X 500 includes a Directory System Agent (DSA), a directory access API, and a set of Directory User Agents (DUAs) for different terminal types. UCOM.X 500 is a commercial product based on PIZARRO, the research prototype developed at INRIA by Christian Huitema's team. Some characteristics of the DSA are: - The DAP and DSP protocols are provided conformant with the 1988 CCITT X.500 recommendations. - 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. Additionally, fre- quently 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. - All X.500 (88) as well as some X.400 (88) object classes, attributes and syntaxes are supported. Users may define their own classes and attribute types. - Schema management: object class and attribute definitions are enforced. - Simple authentication is provided; strong authentication is not currently supported.
- 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.
The UCOM.X 500 API provides the DAP protocol to applications access-
ing the Directory. It is a synchronous API which automatically
manages referrals. Several DUAs using the API, are available. These
include command line and full screen interfaces for users with ordi-
nary terminals, and an X-Windows user interface (12/91). An X/Open
XDS API will be offered shortly.
UCOM.X 500 is used by French research centers involved in PARADISE, a
COSINE project. A distributed application to control document
transfer in a large French hospital, has been built on the UCOM.X 500
API. It is being used for distributed applications management in the
French Post Office.
COMPLETENESS
UCOM.X 500 conforms to 1988 X.500 series of recommendations, as
specified in paragraph 9 of X.519, with the exception of strong
authentication.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability tests with other implementations, e.g. QUIPU, have
been made in the PARADISE project. UCOM.X 500 is used in the French
PARADISE pilot.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
DSA and DUA connectivity to the PARADISE pilots. See caveats.
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 is stored in main memory which means that the order
of magnitude of the number of objects supported per DSA is 10,000. By
1992 100,000 objects will be supported.
Not all syntaxes defined in the COSINE and Internet Schema are
currently supported, and the DUAs do not display photo attributes.
The Internet DSP is not supported.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT UCOM.X 500 uses RFC-1006 with TCP/IP and TP0 with X.25. HARDWARE PLATFORMS UCOM.X 500 runs on: Sun 3, Sun 4, IBM RS 6000, Philips P 9000, DEC machines, Bull DPX 2000, HP 9000/300, Siemens IN 6000 and 386-based PCs. It can easily be ported to any UNIX machine. Windows 3 and Macintosh DUAs will be available by Spring 1992. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS UCOM.X 500 is portable to any UNIX-like operating system. It has been ported to: AIX, UNIX System V.3, SUN OS 4, Ultrix, HP-UX, SCO Unix, Interactive, BOS (Bull Operating System), and SPIX. The UNIX file system is used to hold the DIB. AVAILABILITY UCOM.X is commercially available. Contact: Dominique Fayet E3.X Tour Anjou 33 Quai de Dion Bouton 92 814 Puteaux CEDEX FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1 40 90 08 15 Fax: (+33) 1 47 74 58 87 Philippe Brun C=fr;A=atlas;P=e3x;O=e3x;S=Brun phb@e3x.fr
NAME ud University of Michigan LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS Available via FTP, DUA Light Weight Client, Free, Source, UNIX, Mul- tiple Vendor Platforms ABSTRACT ud is a command line based directory application useful for display- ing and modifying white pages information about people. It runs on top of the DIXIE protocol (described in RFC 1246). ud was developed to run under Unix and is currently in beta release within U-M staff and a few other places that have heard of it. Features include the ability to display and modify the following attributes: title, description, commonName, uid, mail, postalAddress, homePostalAddress, telephoneNumber, facsimileTelephoneNumber, home- Phone. COMPLETENESS ud uses the DIXIE protocol to access X.500 and thus is subject to the same completeness restrictions as DIXIE. It provides Read, Search, and Modify capabilities. INTEROPERABILITY Works with the DIXIE server, which works with the QUIPU DSA and DAP library. PILOT CONNECTIVITY It has been tested (in conjunction with the DIXIE server) in both the Internet and PARADISE pilots. BUGS No outstanding bugs are known. But reports should be sent to x500@itd.umich.edu.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS ud is heavily oriented to white pages information and thus general access to the DIXIE protocol is not provided. INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT ud uses the DIXIE protocol and thus TCP to communicate with the DIXIE server. HARDWARE PLATFORMS ud is known to run on Sun 3s, Sun 4s, and Vaxen. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS SunOS 3.5, SunOS 4.1.1, BSD 4.3 Unix. AVAILABILITY This software is openly available. It may be obtained by anonymous FTP from terminator.cc.umich.edu in the directory ~ftp/x500. This software was developed at the University of Michigan by Bryan Beecher of the ITD Research Systems Unix Group and is subject to the following copyright. Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are per- mitted 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.
NAME VMS-ISODE Computer Science Department of Massey University LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS API, Available via FTP, DSA/DUA, Free, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, Source, VMS ABSTRACT VMS-ISODE is a reasonably complete port of ISODE version 7.0. It sits on top of several TCP implementations for VMS (UCX, Multinet, CMU and Wollongong) and also PSI X.25. See entry for QUIPU/ISODE for a detailed description of the DSA/DUA. COMPLETENESS See entry for QUIPU/ISODE. INTEROPERABILITY See entry for QUIPU/ISODE. PILOT CONNECTIVITY Not tested. BUGS VMS related problems should be sent to PKay@massey.ac.nz CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS None. INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT See entry for QUIPU/ISODE.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS VAX hardware SOFTWARE PLATFORMS VMS v5.0 or greater AVAILABILITY The VMS part of the package is freely available. Anonymous FTP from cc-vms1.massey.ac.nz (130.123.1.4).
NAME VTT X.500 Technical Research Centre of Finland LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS API, Apollo, CLNP, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, IBM PC, Multiple Vendor Platforms, RFC-1006, Sun, X.25 ABSTRACT VTT X.500 contains a full distributed DSA and a subroutine call to dua ( call_dua(parameters)). This subroutine is linked to user's pro- cess. There are two ways for dua to communicate with our DSA called dsacvops: a fast communication through shared memory for dua and dsa in the same computer and a complete OSI-stack for communicating in DAP-protocol with remote dsa's which can be any implementation of X.500 dsa, not necessarily dsacvops. DSA communicates with other dsas through a full OSI-stack with protocol DSP or with a shorter stack when both dsas are dsacvops-processes. dsacvops contains a special purpose database DIB. VTT X500 contains caching of read and search results, access controls (as in Annex F of X.501), object classes and attribute types as in X.520 and X.521 and simple authen- tication with unprotected passwords in bind. The network level can be X.25 or TCP/IP. There are test duas, duacvops, duauser, with a simple user interface. Certificates for strong authentication are included to x509dua and x509duacvops. VTT X500 is realized with program development tools CVOPS and CASN, the code is in C-language and uses UNIX System V. The code is fairly easy to port to other operating systems. VTT X500 was made for Smail e-mail product of Nokia Data Systems. COMPLETENESS Complete DAP and DSP of 1988 X.500 Recommendations are implemented. There are the following omissions: multicasting is not implemented, strong authentication of calls to dsa (optional signing of DAP and DSP-calls, strong authentication in bind, security error, security parameters in common arguments), T61 alternative in CASE IGNORE and CASE EXACT STRING, Criteria-syntax, TeletexTerminalIdentifier syntax.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability with ISODE QUIPU 6.0 has been tested, no formal test
suite was used.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Not tested: It should work in principle, but has not been tested.
BUGS
No known bugs at the moment.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Object identifiers for object classes and attribute types can
currently have only the form {2 5 6 x} or {2 5 4 x}, x<256. Changing
the directory schema requires code writing.
INTERWORKING ENVIRONMENT
RFC-1006 with TCP/IP, TP0 with X.25, TP4 with X.25 available by
agreement.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Sun-3, Sun 386, Apollo, a version of dua for IBM PC will be forthcom-
ing 1991.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Unix System V. Our own database and database management system. Uses
CVOPS protocol development tool.
AVAILABILITY
Commercially available. Contact
Asko Vilavaara
Telecommunications Laboratory
Technical Research Centre of Finland
Otakaati 7 B, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND
Telephone:+358 0 456 5641
FAX: +358 0 455 0115
E-mail: Asko.Vilavaara@tel.vtt.fi
Henryka Jormakka
Telecommunications Laboratory
Technical Research Centre of Finland
Otakaati 7 B, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND
Telephone:+ 358 0 456 5662
FAX: +358 0 455 0115
E-mail: Henryka.Jormakka@tel.vtt.fi
NAME WIN(tm)/DS The Wollongong Group, Inc. LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS API, CLNP, Commercially Available, DSA/DUA, Multiple Vendor Plat- forms, OSI Transport, RFC-1006, Source, UNIX, X Windows, X.25 ABSTRACT WIN/DS is an implementation of OSI Directory Services aligned with the ISO 1988 X.500 IS and NIST Stable Implementors Agreements. WIN/DS includes both a Directory User Agent (DUA) and a Directory System Agent (DSA). The product supports all Directory Services operations, object classes and attributes. It provides support for managing the Directory Information Tree (DIT) with facilities to control structure rules and their enforcement. WIN/DS also provides solutions to areas not specified by the 1988 standards, such as replication and access control. COMPLETENESS Wollongong closely follows the NIST OIW Stable Implementors' Agree- ments. See also QUIPU. INTEROPERABILITY WIN/DS has interoperated with other X.500 implementations at trade shows (CeBIT and Interop) and at strategic customer sites. PILOT CONNECTIVITY [No information provided--Ed.] BUGS Requests for product enhancement and modification should be sent to support@twg.com.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS [No information provided--Ed.] INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT TCP/IP (RFC 1006) TP0 TP2 TP4 OSI TP[0/2,4] & TCP/IP dual stack gateway Ethernet X.25 Ethernet/X.25 gateway ES-IS IS-IS Interface to OSI transport via the TLI Interface to the Data Link Layer via the DLPI STREAMS and DLPI compliant 3rd party network interfaces HARDWARE PLATFORMS End-user binary product - 386/i486 with UNIX System V (AT&T, Intel, INTERACTIVE, SCO) Apple Macintosh with A/UX Portable source code - UNIX SVR3, SVR4, BSD single- or mutli-processor 680x0, 880000, 386/i486 SOFTWARE PLATFORMS See above. AVAILABILITY WIN/DS is commercially available from: The Wollongong Group, Inc. 1129 San Antonio Road Palo Alto CA 94303 Sales and Information: :415/962-7100 California 703/847-4500 Wash D +32-2-718-0311 Belgium
NAME
X.500 DUA process
3Com Corporation
LAST MODIFIED
July, 1991
KEYWORDS
CLNP, Commercially Available, DUA Only, Multiple Vendor Platforms, X
Window System, X.25, 3Com
ABSTRACT
The DUA process runs on 3Com's dual-stack OSI/TCP terminal server,
scheduled to be released in mid-June 1991. It provides Presentation
Address resolution for names, on behalf of the VTP application: when
the user attempts an outgoing connection ("VTP <name>" or "connect
<name>"), <name> gets mapped to its Presentation Address.
The DUA process supports the AddEntry, RemoveEntry, and Search opera-
tions. Via a menu-driven command, the system administrator can con-
figure any of these operations, then send the request to the DSA. He
would use the AddEntry operation to enter a resource name and its
corresponding physical address in the DIB, the DeleteEntry operation
to remove the name and its physical address, and the Search operation
(with "filter" as an option) for a display of all registered names
or, given a name, a display of the name's physical address.
Regarding unbinding from a DSA, the system administrator could use an
UnbindDSA command or set a timer which, once expired, would automati-
cally perform the unbinding. The binding to a DSA, on the other
hand, is transparent, provided the system administrator has set a DSA
address. The binding is triggered by either an outgoing connection
attempt or an operation request sent to the DSA.
The schema supported by the DUA consists of the following sequence of
object classes: Country, Organization, OrganizationalUnit (up to 3
levels of OrganizationalUnits are allowed), ApplicationProcess, and
ApplicationEntity. Their respective attributes are CountryName,
OrganizationName, OrganizationUnitName, CommonName, and Presenta-
tionAddress. The CommonName of the ApplicationEntity is always "vt"
for VTP and is transparent to the system administrator.
COMPLETENESS
Compliance with the ISO/IEC 9594 standards.
Handling referrals not yet implemented.
Schema supported: Country, Organization, OrganizationalUnit,
ApplicationProcess, and ApplicationEntity.
Authentication not supported.
INTEROPERABILITY
Interoperability with the ISODE QUIPU Directory Service and any DSA
which strictly meets the ISO/IEC 9495 standards.
BUGS
[No information provided--Ed.]
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
Deleting an entry will fail if the DUA is interacting with a 6.0
based version of QUIPU. This is a bug in QUIPU, and version 7.0
release will have it fixed.
Adding a CountryName is disallowed if the DUA is bound to QUIPU.
This decision was made because to add a country in QUIPU, one needs
to bind as the manager of the DSA holding the root EDB file, and such
information may not always be available to the system administrator.
Also, our binding is done transparently.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
OSI environments with the complete OSI stack, supporting CLNS and
TP4.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
3Com's OSI/TCP CS/2000 and CS/2100.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The "SW/2000-OT Vers 1.0" software runs on 3Com's OSI/TCP CS/2000 and
CS/2100, both stand-alone systems.
AVAILABILITY
The dual-stack OSI/TCP terminal server and its "SW/2000-OT Vers 1.0"
software is available from:
3Com Corporation
5400 Bayfront Plaza
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Information: Cyndi Jung
(408) 764-5173
cmj@3Com.COM
NAME Xdi Bellcore LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS DUA Only, DUA Connectivity, Available via FTP, Free, Source, Needs ISODE, X Window System, RFC-1006, CLNP, UNIX, X.25 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 dif- ferent 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. COMPLETENESS The Xdi interface does not support accesses to Delete and Add DAP operations as in the 88 Directory Standard. Read, Search, and most Modify operations are fully supported. There are no facilities to modify the RDNs of entries. Strong authentication is not implemented. INTEROPERABILITY Believed to be compliant. Only tested against ISODE/QUIPU DSAs. PILOT CONNECTIVITY DUA Connectivity BUGS Send bug reports to sywuu@thumper.bellcore.com
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS None known. 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 6.8 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 environ- ments of ISODE. AVAILABILITY The Xdi software is available via anonymous FTP from thumper.bellcore.com in file pub/xdi.tar.Z. Source code and execut- ables 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 contactSze-Ying Wuu at sywuu@thumper.bellcore.com.
NAME Xds CSIRO Division of Information Technology LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS Dua only, Free, Limited Functionality, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, Source, Sun, X-Windows ABSTRACT Xds is a DUA designed for users who have little or no knowledge of X.500. Its intended to be used, for example, by a receptionist who has to answer such queries as 'Could I have the telephone number of Andrew who works in Research?'. The display is customized for the particular organization and the results of the search are presented in the format of a business card. It is possible to customize the displayed information. COMPLETENESS Xds does not provide user access to all the services provided by X.500. Instead, Xds uses X.500 services to provide the specific functions for which it is designed to provide. Conforms to section 9 of X.519. INTEROPERABILITY Only tested against the QUIPU (ISODE) DSA. No known bugs, but we would be interested in any found. Contact Andrew Waugh (ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au) PILOT CONNECTIVITY Not tested. BUGS No known bugs, but we would be interested in any found. Contact Andrew Waugh (ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au)
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
The user can only bind as the anonymous user.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Uses the QUIPU (ISODE 7.0) libraries.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Xds runs on Sun SPARCstations. We have not tested Xds on other
hardware platforms, but it should run on other hardware which sup-
ports ISODE-7.0 and X Windows.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Xds requires ISODE-7.0 and X 11 Version 4 with the Athena Widgets.
AVAILABILITY
The Xds software will be distributed free to any non-commercial site
provided
i) they do not pass the code on to any other site (rather they
should ask the other site to contact us directly).
ii) they do not make money out of from the use or sale of the
software.
iii) they inform us of any problems or possible improvements
that they would like to see made.
Commercial sites should contact us.
For further information contact:
Andrew Waugh
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
723 Swanston St
Carlton VIC 3053
AUSTRALIA
Phone +61 3 282 2615
Fax +61 3 282 2600
Email ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au
NAME xdua CSIRO Division of Information Technology LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS DUA Only, Free, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, source, Sun, X Window System ABSTRACT The xdua is a DUA designed to be used by DSA managers who have suffi- cient X.500 knowledge to manipulate the Directory Information Tree (DIT). It's typical use is to maintain the information stored on a DSA. The xdua has a Macintosh style interface. This simplifies browsing the DIT hierarchy. A user can traverse the DIT levels by using a standard mouse. The xdua supports the X.500 operations of add, modify, delete, search and show. COMPLETENESS Uses the QUIPU (ISODE) dsap interface to provide the X.500 opera- tions. Conforms to section 9 of X.519. INTEROPERABILITY Only tested against the QUIPU (ISODE) DSA. PILOT CONNECTIVITY [No information provided--Ed.] BUGS No known bugs, but we would be interested in any found. Contact Brian May (Brian.May@mel.dit.csiro.au) CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS The executable code is large as it uses the X11R4 and DiSh libraries. The xdua is in the testing phase.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As supported by ISODE.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
The xdua runs on Sun SPARCstations and probably on other hardware
which supports ISODE-7.0 and X Windows.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
The xdua requires ISODE-7.0 and X 11 Version 4 with the Athena Widg-
ets and the Xt toolkit.
AVAILABILITY
We will distribute it free to any non-commercial site provided
i) they do not pass the code on to any other site (rather they
should ask the other site to contact us directly).
ii) they do not make money out of from the use or sale of the
software.
iii) they inform us of any problems or possible improvements
that they would like to see made.
Commercial sites should contact us directly. For further information
contact:
Brian May
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
723 Swanston St,
Carlton,
Victoria 3053,
Australia
Phone +61 3 282 2613
Fax +61 3 282 2600
Email Brian.May@mel.dit.csiro.au
NAME XLU Brunel University LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS Available via FTAM, Available via FTP, DUA Only, Free, Multiple Ven- dor Platforms, Needs ISODE, RFC-1006, Source, UNIX ABSTRACT XLU (X LookUp) is an X.500 DUA interface for the X Window System. Developed from POD, XLU can be configured for many different styles of interaction. Example configurations are provided for single window and multiple window (POD-like) use. XLU implements the `User-Friendly Naming' search strategy and also has a form-filling search mode. Asynchronous directory operations are used. Full add and modify functions are provided, with the ability to tailor the modify screen to present simple subsets of the available attribute. At the time of writing (October 1991) XLU was in beta test. COMPLETENESS 88 standard: strong authentication not implemented. INTEROPERABILITY Believed to be compliant, though untested. PILOT CONNECTIVITY DUA Connectivity: In use at Brunel and some other sites in the UK and PARADISE pilots. BUGS Bugs to x500@brunel.ac.uk.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
[No information provided--Ed.]
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
TP0 over TCP/IP (and others as ISODE).
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Most UNIX machines.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
UNIX
MIT X libraries (release 11 version 4)
ISODE/QUIPU libraries (version 7.0 upwards)
AVAILABILITY
Sources are freely available for commercial or non-commercial use.
Contacts:
Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk +44 1 895 274000 x 2512
Damanjit.Mahl@brunel.ac.uk +44 1 895 274000 x 2946
x500@brunel.ac.uk
Postal Address:
Andrew Findlay
Computer Centre
Brunel University
Cleveland Road,
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Anonymous FTP:
src.brunel.ac.uk
x500/xlu.tar.Z
NAME XT-DUA X-Tel Services Limited LAST MODIFIED November, 1991 KEYWORDS DUA Only, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE-7.0, RFC-1006 X Win- dow System, CLNP, X.25, OSI Transport, Sun, Unix, Commercially Avail- able. ABSTRACT XT-DUA provides a X-Windows based user interface to the X.500 direc- tory. Both Motif and OpenLook styles are supported. XT-DUA is available in two forms: as a browsing tool as a management tool Browsing features include: - 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 applicationEntities eg startup of ftam session. - User friendly name for attributes. - 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
COMPLETENESS
XT-DUA provides access to all the X.500 DAP operations. Protocol
completeness is as for QUIPU-7.0.
INTEROPERABILITY
As for the QUIPU-7.0.
PILOT CONNECTIVITY
Full DUA Connectivity to the X.500 Pilot.
BUGS
No known bugs.
CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS
None.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
As for the QUIPU-7.0.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
As for the QUIPU-7.0.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
As for the QUIPU-7.0, with the addition of X Windows and either Motif
or Open Look.
AVAILABILITY
XT-DUA is commercial software. It is available via ftp. For more
details contact:
Colin Robbins or Graeme Lunt
X-Tel Services Limited
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
DN: c=GB@o=X-Tel Services Ltd
Telephone: +44 602 412648
Fax: +44 602 790278
E-Mail: x500@xtel.co.uk
NAME xwp Performance Systems International Inc. LAST MODIFIED July, 1991 KEYWORDS Commercially Available, DUA Only, Limited Functionality, Multiple Vendor Platforms, UNIX, X Window System ABSTRACT xwp is a graphical user interface tailored specifically to provide easy access to the Directory for the purposes of performing White Pages searches. It is currently in use as one of user interfaces available on wp1.psi.net and wp2.psi.net, the two service machines for the White Pages Pilot Project. Implements User-Friendly Naming scheme developed in IETF OSI-DS Working Group. COMPLETENESS Compliant with X.500 standards to the extent that the QUIPU implemen- tation is. INTEROPERABILITY Successfully interoperates with QUIPU DSAs. PILOT CONNECTIVITY [No information provided--Ed.] BUGS Bugs to ssd-help@psi.com CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS xwp is not a general-purpose DUA. It was designed to be a special- purpose front-end for performing White Pages searches and thus, in the interests of simplification, does not provide the full range of functionality supported by the X.500 standard.
INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT
Runs in a BSD UNIX environment supporting the X Windows System.
HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Should be capable of running in any BSD UNIX environment that sup-
ports the X Windows system. No special hardware required beyond that
required to support X Windows, BSD UNIX and the ISODE.
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS
Tested under SUNOS 3.x and 4.x; should run under most variants of BSD
UNIX. Requires X Windows Release 3 or later.
AVAILABILITY
xwp is a commercial product that may be licensed from PSI Inc. as
part of PSI's Software Source Distribution (SSD). Email to
ssd-info@psi.co
will elicit an automatic response containing information on the SSD.
Ordering information may be obtained by sending electronic mail to
ssd-order@psi.com
or contacting PSI at
Performance Systems International Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 1100
Reston, Virginia 22091.
1.703.620.6651
1.800.82PSI82 (1.800.827.7482)
1.703.620.4586 (fax)
NAME xwp University of Wisconsin LAST MODIFIED July, 1991 KEYWORDS Free, IBM PC, Multiple Vendor Platforms, Needs ISODE, UNIX, X Window System ABSTRACT The xwp program is a simple browser for the QUIPU/X.500 directory. It uses OSF/Motif and the X Window System to provide a convenient user interface. The user interface consists of five different top-level windows: the main window, the search window, and three option windows. The main window appears when the program is executed and all others are reached through its menus. The main window contains Current Loca- tion, Current Descendents, Descendent Filter, Current Information, and Directory Status subwindows. The contents of these subwindows show information about the current location of the browser in the directory tree. The search window contains Search Area, Search Filter, and Search Results subwindows. The mouse pointer may be used in the main window to change the current location of the browser in the directory tree. We can des- cend deeper into the tree by clicking the mouse when it points to a member of the Current Descendents list. Doing this "moves" the browser to this new (one level deeper) location in the directory tree. This causes the main window to be updated as follows: (1) the selected descendent becomes the new Current Location, (2) its descen- dents are listed in Current Descendents, and (3) its contents are displayed in Current Information. Any problems and messages from the directory are displayed in the Directory Status portion of the main window. To move the browser up the directory tree (i.e. towards the root), click the mouse pointer on one of the components of the Current Location. In this way it is possible to move the browser to any location above its current position (i.e. to any ancestor) in one mouse click. Doing this causes the main window to be updated as dis- cussed above. Due to directory-imposed limits, it may not always be possible to display all the descendents of the current position. In such cases (and others) it may be useful to impose a filter on the
descendents to be listed. To do this, position the mouse pointer in the Descendent Filter box and use the keyboard to type in the desired filter expression. Typing <RETURN> in this box causes the Current Descendents list to be updated using the new filter. xwp was developed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Sciences Department. It is used in conjunction with the ECI mail user agent project. xwp was written by Robert Lazarus, III. COMPLETENESS n/a INTEROPERABILITY xwp currently operates with ISODE version 6.0 PILOT CONNECTIVITY [No information provided--Ed.] BUGS xwp should be upgraded to the latest version of ISODE/QUIPU. CAVEATS AND GENERAL LIMITATIONS n/a INTERNETWORKING ENVIRONMENT xwp will operate in any environment where Motif, ISODE and QUIPU operate. HARDWARE PLATFORMS xwp has been run on IBM PC/RT, soon to run on DecStation 3100. SOFTWARE PLATFORMS Berkeley 4.3 and Ultrix 3.1 AVAILABILITY Openly available in May, 1991. Contact hagens@cs.wisc.edu for more information.
4. References [CCITT-88] CCITT, "Data Communications Networks Directory," Recom- mendations 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 Interconnec- tion Protocols," Version 2 Edition 1, NIST Special Publi- cation 500-162, December 1988. 5. Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo. 6. Authors' Addresses Ruth Lang SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415) 859-5608 rlang@nisc.sri.com Russ Wright Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 486-6965 wright@lbl.gov