1. www.novell.com DirXML & DSML 2 Shon Vella Software Engineer, Consultant svella@novell.com

2. DirXML ™ and XML DirXML is a flexible data sharing service built on top of Novell Directory Services ® (NDS ® ) eDirectory ™  Shares data with disparate systems throughout the network  Most of the flexibility is achieved by encoding the shared data in XML and allowing configuration of Rules to transform that data  DirXML uses XSLT as a method of implementing rules

3. DirXML Architecture Novell eDirectoryDirXMLApplication API Event caching DirXML engine DirXML application shim eDirectory server

4. Purpose of Submission DirXML provides a superset of the functionality needed for a reasonable DSML proposal. We believe that we have encountered and solved many of the gotchas that DSML may run into. Because DirXML was designed for a specific application and to be used with both non- LDAP and LDAP based applications, it is probably overgeneral for a standard.

5. Current Position LDAP would be a good basis for a standard With some modifications, the Microsoft proposal is a good basis for DSML 2.0.