CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Linda Millington/Control Data Systems Minutes of MHS-DS Working Group (MHSDS) MHSDS met once at the 31st IETF on Wednesday, 7 December. Linda Millington acted as meeting secretary. Document Status The following MHS-DS documents are being progressed as Experimental RFCs: o ``Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory'' draft-ietf-mhsds-subtrees-06 o ``Use of the X.500 Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses'' draft-ietf-mhsds-supmapping-06 o ``Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree'' draft-ietf-mhsds-infotree-06 o ``MHS use of the X.500 Directory to support MHS Routing'' draft-ietf-mhsds-routdirectory-06 The following MHS-DS document is being progressed as an Informational RFC: o ``Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400 Routing'' draft-ietf-mhsds-long-bud-intro-02 Disposition of MHS-DS After some discussion it was felt that there was not currently enough interest in distribution lists and content conversion to warrant keeping the group active, so it was decided to declare victory and close the group. Long Bud Pilot With the decision to close MHS-DS, reporting on the Long Bud pilot has been moved to the IDS Working Group. The purpose of the Long Bud pilot project is to validate the MHS-DS directory-based routing concepts by deploying the technology on the Internet and evaluating its usage. Thus, the Long Bud pilot is continuing, and the MHS-DS distribution list will continue to be used to communicate information and status about it. The current status of the Pilot is that two core DSAs are functional, one in the US and one in Europe. The InterNIC has agreed to provide a second core DSA in the US and EDF a second European core DSA. Timeframe and Milestones o By the 32nd IETF: - 4 core DSAs functional - RFC 1327 Mapping Tables populated - Routing information populated and validated o By the 33rd IETF: - Report on usage - Declare success A lot of the information currently in the open tree is faulty. MTAs in the open tree should be accessible. Kevin will sort out the c=US part of the tree and work on loading the mapping tables into the Directory. Urs will work with Kevin to provide a triggered mechanism for obtaining table update from SWITCH. There was discussion about how to deal with other countries with a number of people taking actions to populate and validate entries. Urs voiced a concern that mail routed via the open tree must be repliable. It was considered important to encourage more people to participate in the pilot. Urs reported on the recent MHS-Managers meeting and said that X.400 (88) is currently higher on the agenda than MHS-DS. Conclusion The work and experience of MHS-DS will be reported to ISO via Dick Jesmajian, the US X.400 Rapporteur. Actions o Sylvain Langlois -- Second European core DSA will be operational in January 1995. o Kevin Jordan -- Talk to the InterNIC about timescales for the second US core DSA. o Linda Millington -- Find out the status of the Long Bud DSA running at ULCC. o Kevin Jordan, Urs Eppenberger -- Kevin will work with Urs on a triggered mechanism for obtaining mapping table updates from SWITCH. Sylvain is doing similar work which will also be tracked. o Kevin Jordan -- Populate and validate the c=US open community routing tree. o Urs Eppenberger -- Register Swiss ADMDs and PRMDs. o Harald Alvestrand -- Register Norwegian ADMDs and PRMDs in January/February. o Linda Millington -- Check the c=GB portion of the open community routing tree. o Kevin Jordan, Urs Eppenberger -- Urs has some contact names for Portugal to try to solve the current connectivity problems.