CSA ISO/IEC 9594-4:21

CSA Preface Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the SCC Mirror Committee (SMC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T). At the time of publication, ISO/IEC 9594-4:2020 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA Group will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC. This Standard has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group. Scope This Recommendation | International Standard specifies the behavior of DSAs taking part in a distributed directory consisting of multiple Directory systems agents (DSAs) and/or LDAP servers with at least one DSA.The allowed behavior has been designed to ensure a consistent service given a wide distribution of the DIB across a distributed directory.Only the behavior of DSAs taking part in a distributed directory is specified.The behavior of LDAP servers are specified in relevant LDAP specifications.There are no special requirements on an LDAP server beyond those given by the LDAP specifications. The Directory is not intended to be a general purpose database system, although it may be built on such systems.It is assumed that there is a considerably higher frequency of queries than of updates.

CSA Preface Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the SCC Mirror Committee (SMC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T). At the time of publication, ISO/IEC 9594-4:2020 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA Group will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC. This Standard has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group. Scope This Recommendation | International Standard specifies the behavior of DSAs taking part in a distributed directory consisting of multiple Directory systems agents (DSAs) and/or LDAP servers with at least one DSA.The allowed behavior has been designed to ensure a consistent service given a wide distribution of the DIB across a distributed directory.Only the behavior of DSAs taking part in a distributed directory is specified.The behavior of LDAP servers are specified in relevant LDAP specifications.There are no special requirements on an LDAP server beyond those given by the LDAP specifications. The Directory is not intended to be a general purpose database system, although it may be built on such systems.It is assumed that there is a considerably higher frequency of queries than of updates.