Service Location Working Group Jonathan Wood INTERNET DRAFT Roberto Tam Sun Microsystems, Inc. 22 December 1998 The LDAP Service Type draft-ietf-svrloc-ldap-scheme-00.txt Status of This Memo This document is a submission by the Service Location Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Comments should be submitted to the srvloc@srvloc.org mailing list. This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.'' To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check the ``1id-abstracts.txt'' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Northern Europe), ftp.nis.garr.it (Southern Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), or ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast). Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes the LDAP service type. This service type defines the service: URL and attributes necessary for discovering LDAP servers. 1. Introduction This document describes a template providing a service: URL and attributes useful for dynamically discovering LDAP servers; this type can be used with SLP [1]. Service templates and service: schemes are defined in [2]. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) [3] directories are now being used as repositories for UNIX-style system information. Wood, Tam expires June 1999 [Page 1] INTERNET DRAFT December 1998 As such, LDAP service is suitable to be included in the naming- directory class. This type is intended to be used as a concrete portion of the abstract naming-directory type defined in [4]. The LDAP type includes all attributes from the naming-directory abstract type, and defines three new attributes, two pertaining to LDAP security, one to access protocols. For usage examples, refer to [4]. 2. The LDAP Service Type Names of submitters: Jonathan Wood Roberto Tam Language of service template: en Security Considerations: This LDAP service type inherits the security considerations from the naming-directory service type [4]. Template text: -------------------------template begins here----------------------- template-type=naming-directory:ldap template-version=0.0 template-description= This is a concrete type; the abstract type for this service is naming-directory (described in [4]). This type is used by LDAP servers to advertise their services and LDAP clients which wish to discover LDAP servers. template-url=syntax= url-path = ldap URL as defined in [5] security= string M # security mechanisms supported by this server. none,simple,TLS,kerb5,sasl qop= string # quality of protection. The refers to how strongly messages are # protected. There are three possibilities: none, integrity # (meaning that the integrity and endpoints of the message can # be guaranteed), and privacy (meaning that the message is # encrypted). none,integrity,privacy transport= string # the transport used to communicate with this server. Possible # values are connection-oriented (cots) and connectionless Wood, Tam expires June 1999 [Page 2] INTERNET DRAFT December 1998 # (clts). cots,clts --------------------------template ends here------------------------ References: [1] E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Veizades, M. Day. Service Location Protocol. draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-v2-10.txt, July 1998 (work in progress). [2] E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Kempf, Service Templates and service: Schemes. draft-ietf-svrloc-service-scheme-12.txt March, 1998 (work in progress). [3] W. Yeong, T. Howes, S. Kille, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, RFC 1777 March 1995 [4] J. Wood, R. Tam, The Naming and Directory Service Abstract Type. draft-ietf-svrloc-naming-directory-00.txt, November 1998 (work in progress). [5] T. Howes, M. Smith, The LDAP URL Format, RFC 2255 December 1997 Wood, Tam expires June 1999 [Page 3]