News from the wonderful world of the directories (PowerPoint) presented to ITU-T Study Group 17 by Erik Andersen, Denmark gives an update on:
- X.500/LDAP X.500 enhancements
- Concept of Friends
- Attributes
- Paging on the DSP
- Maximum alignment with LDAP
- Enhancements to Public-key and Attribute certificates
- Enhancements to ITU-T Rec. E.115 (2005) Computerized Directory Assistance
- OSI stack removed
- Home grown TCP/IP support integrated in text
- Specifies two versions of the protocol
- Version 1:
- The 1995 edition + all agreed extensions
- All keywords specified in Annex
- Complete rewrite and restructuring of 1995 edition
- Added clarifications ASN.1 BER encoding
- Support mandatory
- Version 2:
- Keywords replaced by new fields – keyword concept no longer used
- Several new enhancements
- ASN.1 BER and XML (or ASN.1 XER) encoding
- Future extensions using ITU-T procedure