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DSA Metrics (OSI-DS 34 (v3))

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Network Working Group                                          P. Barker
Request for Comments: 1564                     University College London
Category: Informational                                       R. Hedberg
                                              Technical University Delft
                                                            January 1994


                              DSA Metrics
                            (OSI-DS 34 (v3))

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This document defines a set of criteria by which a DSA implementation
   may be judged.  Particular issues covered include conformance to
   standards; performance; demonstrated interoperability.  The intention
   is that the replies to the questions posed provide a fairly full
   description of a DSA. Some of the questions will yield answers which
   are purely descriptive; others, however, are intended to elicit
   answers which give some measure of the utility of the DSA. The marks
   awarded for a DSA in each particular area should give a good
   indication of the DSA's capabilities, and its suitability for
   particular uses.

   Please send comments to the authors or to the discussion group
   [email protected]>.

Table of Contents

   1.   Overview                                                      2
   2.   General Information                                           3
   3.   Conformance to OSI Standards                                  4
        3.1    Directory protocols.............................       4
        3.2    Implementors' agreements and profiles  .........       6
        3.3    Protocol stacks.................................       6
        3.4    DIT structure  .................................       7
   4.   Other protocols                                               7
   5.   Extensions to the 1988 Standard                               7
        5.1    Schema .........................................       7
        5.2    Support for replication.........................       8
        5.3    Support for access control .....................       8
        5.4    Miscellaneous  .................................       9
   6.   Miscellaneous characteristics                                10



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