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AS/NZS 4019.

1:1996
ISO/IEC 9594-1:1995

Australian/New Zealand Standard


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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
The Directory

Part 1: Overview of concepts,


models and services
AS/NZS 4019.1:1996

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical


Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 13 February 1996 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 3 May 1996. It was published on 5 May 1996.
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The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Bankers’ Association


Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Science and Technology, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Telstra, Australia
Telecom, New Zealand

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AS/NZS 4019.1:1996

Australian/New Zealand Standard


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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
The Directory
Part 1: Overview of concepts,
models and services

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
1 The Crescent,
Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND


Level 10, Standards House,
155 The Terrace,
Wellington 6001 New Zealand
ISBN 0 7337 0419 0
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee IT/1 on
Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 9594-1:1995,
Information technology—Open Systems Interconnection—The Directory: Overview of concepts, models and
services. This edition will be concurrent with AS 4019.1—1992, Information technology—Open Systems
Interconnection—The Directory, Part 1: Overview of concepts, models and services.

The objective of this Standard is to provide users of information technology with an overview of the concepts,
models and services required for the directory capabilities required by OSI applications, OSI management
processes, OSI layer entities and telecommunications services.

This Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are currently under
development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor difficulties encountered in their
implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be providing, through the OSI Help Desk, a service to
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coordinate and disseminate information concerning difficulties which are identified in using this Standard.

This edition technically revises and enhances AS 4019.1. Implementation may still claim conformance to
AS 4019.1. However, at some point, AS 4019 will no longer be supported. It is recommended that implementation
conform to AS/NZS 4019.1:1996 as soon as possible.

This Standard is Part 1 of AS/NZS 4019, Information technology—Open Systems Interconnection—The Directory,
which is published in Parts as follows:

Part 1: Overview of concepts, models and services (this Standard)


Part 2: Models
Part 3: Abstract service definition
Part 4: Procedures for distributed operation
Part 5: Protocol specifications
Part 6: Selected attribute types
Part 7: Selected object classes
Part 8: Authentication framework
Part 9: Replication

Users of this Standard are advised by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand, under arrangements made
with ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, that the number of this Standard is not
reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the cover and title pages.

For the purpose of this Standard, the source text should be modified as follows:

(a) Terminology The words ‘this Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘this International
Standard’ wherever they appear.

(b) Decimal marker Substitute a full point for a comma where it appears as a decimal marker.

(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where appropriate,
to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint


or other publication Australian/New Zealand Standard
ISO AS
7498 Information Processing Systems— 2777 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic Reference Model Basic reference model
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ISO/IEC AS/NZS
9594 Information technology— 4019 Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
The Directory: The Directory:
9594-2 Part 2: Models 4019.2 Part 2: Models
9594-3 Part 3: Abstract service definition 4019.3 Part 3: Abstract service definition
9594-4 Part 4: Procedures for distributed 4019.4 Part 4: Procedures for distributed
operation operation
9594-5 Part 5: Protocol specifications 4019.5 Part 5: Protocol specifications
9594-6 Part 6: Selected attribute types 4019.6 Part 6: Selected attribute types
9594-7 Part 7: Selected object classes 4019.7 Part 7: Selected object classes
9594-8 Part 8: Authentication framework 4019.8 Part 8: Authentication framework
9594-9 Part 9: Replication 4019.9 Part 9: Replication
13712 Information technology—Remote
Operations
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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 1


2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 1
3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 2
4 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 3
5 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 4
6 Overview of the Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . 4
7 The Directory Information Base (DIB) . . . . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 5
8 The Directory Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 7
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9 The Distributed Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . 8


10 Access control in the Directory . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 11
11 Replication in the Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 12
12 Directory protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 14
Annex A - Applying the Directory . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 16
Annex B - Amendments and corrigenda . . . . . . . .. .. . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ... 20

Originated in Australi a as AS 4019.1—1992.


Jointl y revised and designated AS/NZS 4019.1:1996.
1

AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND STANDARD

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — OPEN SYSTEMS INTERCONNECTION —


THE DIRECTORY: OVERVIEW OF CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND SERVICES

1 Scope
The Directory provides the directory capabilities required by OSI applications, OSI management processes, other OSI
layer entities, and telecommunications services. Among the capabilities which it provides are those of “user-friendly
naming”, whereby objects can be referred to by names which are suitable for citing by human users (though not all
objects need have user-friendly names); and “name-to-address mapping” which allows the binding between objects and
their locations to be dynamic. The latter capability allows OSI networks, for example, to be “self-configuring” in the
sense that addition, removal and the changes of object location do not affect OSI network operation.

The Directory is not intended to be a general-purpose database system, although it may be built on such systems. It is
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assumed, for instance, that, as is typical with communications directories, there is a considerably higher frequency of
“queries” than of updates. The rate of updates is expected to be governed by the dynamics of people and organizations,
rather than, for example, the dynamics of networks. There is also no need for instantaneous global commitment of
updates; transient conditions where both old and new versions of the same information are available, are quite
acceptable.

It is a characteristic of the Directory that, except as a consequence of differing access rights or unpropagated updates,
the results of directory queries will not be dependent on the identity or location of the inquirer. This characteristic
renders the Directory unsuitable for some telecommunications applications, for example some types of routing.

2 Normative references
The following Recommendations and International Standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text,
constitute provisions of this Recommendation International Standard part. At the time of publication, the editions
indicated were valid. All Recommendations and Standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on
this Recommendation International Standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent
editions of the Recommendations and Standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently
valid International Standards. The Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the ITU maintains a list of currently
valid ITU-T Recommendations.

2.1 Identical Recommendations International Standards

— ITU-T Recommendation X.501 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-2:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Models.

— ITU-T Recommendation X.511 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-3:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Abstract service definition.

— ITU-T Recommendation X.518 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-4:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Procedures for distributed operation.

— ITU-T Recommendation X.519 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-5:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Protocol specifications.

— ITU-T Recommendation X.520 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-6:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Selected attribute types.

— ITU-T Recommendation X.521 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-7:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Selected object classes.

— ITU-T Recommendation X.509 (1993) ISO/IEC 9594-8:1995, Information technology — Open Systems
Interconnection — The Directory: Authentication framework.

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