1. Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April 2003 1 NMI R2 Directory Services Components Overview Art Vandenberg Director, Advanced Campus Services Information Systems & Technology Georgia State University avandenberg@gsu.edu

2. Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April 2003 2 Types of components Conventions & Best Practices –Guidelines & recommendations Directory schema –Interoperation (intra & inter-campus) Enterprise architecture –Designing scaleable infrastructure Services and policy –Tools & tips

3. Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April 2003 3 Conventions & Best Practices LDAP Recipe –Directory tree design, access control, attributes, management –Naming, groups, email services Metadirectory Practices for Enterprise Directories in Higher Education –Definitions, examples, identities, authN/authZ –Provisioning & synchronization Practices in Directory Groups –Groups: terminology, concepts, approaches –Naming, group math, managing, applications

4. Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April 2003 4 Directory Schema eduPerson – core objects for higher ed persons eduOrg – model for organizational objects commObject – videoconferencing & VoIP objects The Idea: standards enable interoperation

5. Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April 2003 5 Enterprise architecture Inter-domain Data Exchange (draft) –Scenarios for data interchange –Federated model –Issues and options –Inter-domain identity mapping –And more…

6. Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April 2003 6 Services & policy LDAP Analyzer –Schema checker, index analysis Sample Campus Account Management Policy –Template for campus accounts –Basis for interoperation (cf. Shibboleth)