INCITS/ISO/IEC 9594-4 : 2013

SECTION 1 - GENERAL
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 Abbreviations
5 Conventions
SECTION 2 - OVERVIEW
6 Overview
SECTION 3 - DISTRIBUTED DIRECTORY MODELS
7 Distributed Directory System Model
8 DSA Interactions Model
SECTION 4 - DSA ABSTRACT SERVICE
9 Overview of DSA Abstract Service
10 Information types
11 Bind and Unbind
12 Chained operations
13 Chained errors
SECTION 5 - DISTRIBUTED PROCEDURES
14 Introduction
15 Distributed Directory behaviour
16 The Operation Dispatcher
17 Request Validation procedure
18 Name Resolution procedure
19 Operation evaluation
20 Continuation Reference procedures
21 Results Merging procedure
22 Procedures for distributed authentication
SECTION 6 - KNOWLEDGE ADMINISTRATION
23 Knowledge administration overview
24 Hierarchical operational bindings
25 Non-specific hierarchical operational binding
Annex A - ASN.1 for Distributed Operations
Annex B - Example of distributed name resolution
Annex C - Distributed use of authentication
Annex D - Specification of hierarchical and non-specific
          hierarchical operational binding types
Annex E - Knowledge maintenance example
Annex F - Amendments and corrigenda

Describes the behavior of DSAs taking part in the distributed Directory application. The allowed behavior has been designed so as to ensure a consistent service given a wide distribution of the DIB across many DSAs.