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Schema Publishing in X
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Network Working Group G. Mansfield
Request for Comments: 1804 AIC Laboratories
Category: Experimental P. Rajeev
Hughes Software Systems
S. Raghavan
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
T. Howes
University of Michigan
June 1995
Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
The X.500 directory provides a powerful mechanism for storing and
retrieving information about objects of interest. To interpret the
information stored in the directory, the schema must be known to all
the components of the directory. Presently, there are no means other
than ftp to distribute schema information across the Internet. This
is proving to be a severe constraint as the Directory is growing.
This document presents a solution to the schema distribution problem
using the existing mechanisms of the directory. A naming scheme for
naming schema objects and a meta-schema for storing schema objects is
presented. The procedures for fetching unknown schema from the
directory at runtime are described.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2
2. Schema Management 2
3. Storage of Schema Information in the Directory 3
4. Retrieval of Schema from the Directory 5
5. The Meta-Schema 6
6. References 9
7. Security Considerations 9
8. Authors' Addresses 10
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