TechTalks Event
Campus Directories
with guest experts Frank Grewe, University of Minnesota & Jeff Hodges, Stanford University
April 22, 1999
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Every campus has one or more. If they work great, no one notices. Whether they work well or not, they can be headache reservoirs. You've experienced good ones and bad ones, now learn more about campus directories and ask your questions of CREN's experts! A sampling of the questions CREN will ask this Thursday includes:�
How does a directory interface with other services such as authentication servers? Or for that matter, with Human Resources or the Registrar's Office? Who decides what directory services to allow, and to whom? Who owns directories? How can we keep all the information we need to have in directories and still maintain privacy or confidentiality? What are some of the common directory/registry services used on campuses? How are they alike? How are they different?
Guest Experts
Frank
Grewe is a Manager in the Academic
& Distributed Computing Services unit of the Office
of Information Technology with the University
of Minnesota.
Jeff
Hodges is a Senior Technical Staff member, Directory
Services and Public
Key Infrastructure, Computing
and Communication Services with Stanford
University. He has been working in the directory services field
(at Stanford) since 1994. He contributed to the production deployment
of Stanford's first phase Registry+Directory infrastructure system
in 1996 and was personally responsible for deploying and operating
the standalone LDAP directory servers that were part of the system.
He has been a primary contributor to the
second phase of the Registry+Directory infrastructure; working
on schema, directory deployment, access control architecture and
other facets of the system. He is an active contributor to the LDAP
effort in the IETF and is co-author on two Internet-Drafts slated
to become part of the set of "core" LDAP RFCs. Additionally, he
has been consulting in the Directory Services area under the Kings
Mountain Systems moniker.
Send in your questions ahead of time or during the session to expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
Come back often, this paragraph will grow. Here's the output of a panel, Directory-Enabled Applications and Networking, Jeff moderated and spoke on at EMA99 just last month in Dallas. His own presentation was entitled, Stanford Registry & Directory Infrastructure: A Case History. Additional resources on the Web include:
If you want to go the book route, Jeff recommends: Understanding and Deploying Ldap Directory Services by Howes, Smith, and Good.
