Project Number:	AD1006	
Project Title:	EuroView - X.500 Directory Services for Administrations in Europe	
Deliverable Type:	PU	

Deliverable Number:	D2.1	
 Contractual Date of Delivery:	04	
Actual Date of Delivery:	08	
Title of Deliverable:	Contact Plan	
Workpackage contributing to the Deliverable:	WP2	
Nature of the Deliverable:	RE	
Author:	Karl H. Bonacker	

Abstract	This paper tries to consider the very nature of the various Directory players, their basic interests and their relation to EuroView’s interests. It studies potential benefits of co-operation and proposes concrete actions to achieve this where appropriate.	
Keywords	EuroView, Telematics for Administrations Programme, DANTE, NameFLOW-Paradise, EWOS - EGDIR Directory Expert Group, EEMA Directory Committee, IETF, IDA, ISODE Consortium, User Involvement	
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Table of Contents
PART I	Title Page
Part II	
Document Control	
Executive Summary	
PART III	
1. Introduction	
2. Objectives of EuroView	
3. Potential Liaisons with Activities Outside the Project	
3.1 DANTE	
3.1.1 Relation to DANTE	
3.1.2 Proposed Actions	
3.2 National Research Network Providers	
3.2.1 Proposed Actions	
3.3 EWOS - EGDIR Directory Expert Group	
3.3.1 Relation to EWOS	
3.3.2 Proposed Actions	
3.4 EEMA Directory Committee	
3.4.1 Relations to EEMA	
3.4.2 Proposed Actions	
3.5 IETF	
3.5.1 Relevance for EuroView	
3.5.2 Proposed Actions	
3.6 G7 Gouvernment On-Line	
3.6.1 Proposed Actions	
3.7 National X.500 Authorities	
3.7.1 Relevance for EuroView	
3.7.2 Proposed Actions	
3.8 Contacts inside the TAP	
3.8.1 Proposed Actions	
3.9 IDA	
3.9.1 Relevance for EuroView	
3.9.2 Proposed Actions	
3.10 ISODE Consortium	
3.10.1 Relevance for EuroView	
3.10.2 Proposed Actions	
3.11 X.500 projects of one or more public administrations	
3.11.1 Relevance for EuroView	
3.11.2 Proposed Actions	
4. User Involvement	
4.1 Proposed Actions	
5. Summary of proposed Actions	
PART IV	
1. References	

Part II
Document Control
Issue Number	Issue Date	Reason for Change	
1.1	12/08/96		

Executive Summary 
EuroView is a co-operative project whose partners are Dr. Materna GmbH, Dortmund, Brunel University, London, and  Sema Group sae, Madrid. Dr Materna GmbH is the project co-ordinator. EuroView is partly funded by the European Commission, DG XIII, within the framework of the Telematics for Administrations Programme.
The complexity of the European communication infrastructure demands transparency and requires user support. Project EuroView aims to implement an electronic directory service for public administrations on the basis of X.500. Major objectives of the project are a concept for the usage of the Directory by public administrations, the implementation of a pilot service and the evaluation and realisation of User Agents which are tailored for the needs of public administrations.
There are a few institutions, initiatives and projects which are active in the area of X.500.
•	Projects already running directory services, most notably the NameFLOW-PARADISE project under the auspices of DANTE and various national research network providers.
•	Institutions promoting OSI applications in general, among others the Directory  (EWOS, EPHOS, ....).
•	other EU-funded projects (e.g. IDA activities).
•	X.500 projects of one or more public administrations .
•	potential national X.500 authorities.
The fact that X.500, by nature, cannot be implemented as an isolated service - X.500 aims at a single, global directory - requires EuroView to co-operate with the various institutions,  initiatives and projects which are active in the area of X.500.
This paper tries to consider the very nature of the various Directory players, their basic interests and their relation to EuroView’s interests. It studies potential benefits of co-operation and proposes concrete actions to achieve this co-operation where appropriate.

PART III
1.	Introduction
EuroView is a co-operative project whose partners are Dr. Materna GmbH, Dortmund, Brunel University, London, and  Sema Group sae, Madrid. Dr Materna GmbH is the project co-ordinator. EuroView is partly funded by the European Commission, DG XIII, within the framework of the Telematics for Administrations Programme.
The complexity of the European communication infrastructure demands transparency and requires user support. Project EuroView aims to implement an electronic directory service for public administrations on the basis of X.500. Major objectives of the project are a concept for the usage of the Directory by public administrations, the implementation of a pilot service and the evaluation and realisation of User Agents which are tailored for the needs of public administrations.
There are a few institutions, initiatives and projects which are active in the area of X.500.
•	Projects already running directory services, most notably the NameFLOW-PARADISE project under the auspices of DANTE and various national research network providers.
•	Institutions promoting OSI applications in general, among others the Directory  (EWOS, EPHOS, ....).
•	other EU-funded projects (e.g. IDA activities).
•	X.500 projects of one or more public administrations .
•	potential national X.500 authorities.
The fact that X.500, by nature, cannot be implemented as an isolated service - X.500 aims at a single, global directory - requires EuroView to co-operate with the various institutions,  initiatives and projects which are active in the area of X.500.
This paper tries to consider the very nature of the various Directory players, their basic interests and their relation to EuroView’s interests. It studies potential benefits of co-operation and proposes concrete actions to achieve this co-operation where appropriate.
2.	Objectives of EuroView 
Editorial Note: A contact plan implies a certain view on the objectives of EuroView and the kind of service EuroView intents to provide. As these objectives are currently open to some extent, this document takes a position on them. While accepting that this document might not be the right place for such fundamental statements, this chapter lists some of the basic assumptions made for the contact plan in order to document them.
1.	EuroView sees the need for commercial international public directory service providers.
2.	DSAs operated by EuroView and DSAs running at public administrations shall be connected to the global Directory. This requirement is promoted by EuroView in the spirit of X.500. It is currently not clear whether this requirement is endorsed by our users or whether they prefer to run a corporate directory not connected to the global Directory.
3.	Promoting migration to and providing migration strategies to X.500 are objectives of EuroView.
3.	Potential Liaisons with Activities Outside the Project
This chapter reviews potential contacts with various Directory players, their basic interests and their relation to EuroView’s interests. It studies potential benefits of co-operation and proposes concrete actions to achieve this co-operation where appropriate.
3.1	DANTE
DANTE is a not-for-profit company, set up in 1993 by the national research networks in Europe to organise international network services for them and on their behalf. DANTE's services complement those provided by the national research networks.
DANTE's international network service, EuropaNET, links the national research networks the length and breadth of Europe and provides intercontinental connectivity.
DANTE is offering NameFLOW, an international co-ordinated X.500 directory service, based on PARADISE, the international pilot Directory service set up as part of the COSINE Project.
3.1.1	Relation to DANTE
While EuroView sees the need for commercial international public directory service providers, EuroView notes that NameFLOW-PARADISE is the only operational public directory service in Europe at the moment.
Connectivity - or the question „How can public Administrations be connected to the global Directory“ - is a major point for EuroView, with two aspects:
•	connectivity of the DSAs operated by EuroView.
•	promotion of and help to provide connectivity to DSAs running at public administrations.
It is EuroView’s opinion that at present the question „How can public administrations be connected to the global Directory“ can only be answered in tight co-operation with DANTE.
DSAs operated by EuroView shall be connected to the global Directory, and shall thus have connections to NameFLOW-PARADISE DSAs. DSAs running at user sites shall get direct or indirect connectivity to NameFLOW-PARADISE DSAs at least as long as there are no commercial international public directory service providers. This connectivity will be provided by EuroView. Tight co-operation with DANTE is sought to accomplish this.
There may be a potential disparity of views over the question of X.500 national authorities. While for EuroView this question is currently open and has to be addressed during the course of the project, „provisional X.500 national authorities“ have been established for the PARADISE pilot service. The position of DANTE on this question has yet to be clarified.
To distribute the results of EuroView to a wide supplier and user community, object classes and attribute types defined by EuroView to serve the requirements of public Administrations shall be provided to DANTE for integration into the schema used in NameFLOW-PARADISE.
Brunel University actively follows ongoing activities in DANTE.
3.1.2	Proposed Actions
Tight co-operation with DANTE is sought.
DSAs operated by EuroView shall be connected to NameFLOW-PARADISE.
Results of EuroView in form of object class and attribute type definitions will be provided to DANTE for integration into the schema used in NameFLOW-PARADISE.
3.2	National Research Network Providers
National research network providers provide access to NameFLOW-Paradise under the umbrella of DANTE. They operate contry level DSAs and are the national contact points for the question „how to connect to the global Directory“. In Germany this role is taken by the DFN.
3.2.1	Proposed Actions
National research network providers shall be contacted to accomplish the connection to NameFLOW-PARADISE.
3.3	EWOS - EGDIR Directory Expert Group
The European Workshop for Open Systems (EWOS) was established in 1987 with the aim of being an open forum to discuss OSI interworking issues, and to produce documentation that would enable different OSI implementations to interwork. One of EWOS’s objectives is to produce functional profiles of OSI international standards. Functional profiles are necessary where the base international standards contain optional features and different levels of functionality which prevent the interworking between different implementations.
Another EWOS objective is the definition of conformance test suites to determine if a particular implementation correctly obeys the directives of the relevant functional profile.
The Directory Expert Group of EWOS (EWOS/EG DIR) has, together with ETSI TE.6, formed a common group, which aims to promote and aid in the deployment of a European Directory infrastructure. It does so by developing technical guides which provide support to Directory activities within Europe, and also by defining profiles of the Directory specifications to enable the implementation of Directory products which meet the needs of the user community. The work of the group results in European Pre-standards (ENVs).
EWOS liaises closely with AOW (Asia - Oceania Workshop) and OIW (the US base OSI Implementers Workshop), aiming at common International Standardised Profiles (ISPs).
EWOS/EG DIR/ETSI TE.6 has already achieved:
•	The specification of International Standardised Profiles for the 1988 editions of the Directory.
•	An EWOS Technical Guide on how to interconnect Directory Management Domains (DMDs), which provides guidelines on how to offer a comprehensive Directory service across several service providers.
•	An EWOS Technical Guide on Security Architecture for the Directory which helps to identify security threats and how to guard against them.
•	A tutorial on the Directory specifications.
•	Abstract Test Suites for the 1988 edition of the Directory Specifications.
•	Support to user groups and pilot projects.
The work on the profiles for the 1993 edition on X.500 is ongoing, and given the added complexities of this edition it might well take the next few years to complete.
3.3.1	Relation to EWOS
EuroView shall take notice of the documents produced by EWOS/EG DIR/ETSI TE.6. These documents should be taken into account by the service provided by EuroView as far as appropriate.
Besides thorough review of the group’s output, active participation in the group may be considered. EuroView’s benefits of participating in the group might be the following:
1.	to be able to contribute to decisions on how the European directory infrastructure will be formed.
2.	to contribute to the specification of profiles that will promote directory products which meet the needs of public Administrations.
3.	to obtain a good understanding of the environment in which the EuroView pilot project will operate.
4.	to gain understanding of the issues related to the use of the Directory, such as naming structures, information structures and character sets.
5.	to develop a knowledge of the Directory specifications through discussions within the group.
In particular point 2 might be of major interest for EuroView. To what extent EuroView can contribute to the specification of profiles depends on topics currently handled by EWOS/EG DIR/ETSI TE.6 and the status of ongoing work.
3.3.2	Proposed Actions
EWOS documents shall be reviewed and relevance to the EuroView service should be examined. 
Topics currently handled by EWOS/EG DIR/ETSI TE.6 and the status of the ongoing work shall be determined and active participation should be considered.
3.4	EEMA Directory Committee
The Directory Committee of the EEMA (European Electronic Messaging Association) is working, among other things, on the following questions:
1.	X.500 Product Guide.
2.	Guidelines for Top Level Naming in Europe. The objective is to provide a basis for common agreements on naming and DIT (Directory Information Tree) structuring across European countries in order to achieve a single European namespace. Issues and requirements related to structuring of the DIT as well as existing services such as NameFLOW will be considered.
3.	Guidelines for Corporate Directory Deployment. The objective is to identify and provide guidance on the issues associated with the migration of a corporate directory to the X.500 Directory.
At the annual EEMA Conference in June 1995 in Amsterdam the EEMA Directory Committee showed that X.500 implementations are at hand and that they work together. The interworking demo given at the conference showed a multi-vendor demonstration of ten products of different vendors. An overview of companies providing X.500 products is given in the EEMA X.500 Product Guide.
3.4.1	Relations to EEMA
Dr. Materna GmbH is a member of EEMA and thus actively follows EEMA’s work. This could yield helpful information for EuroView deliverables such as D3.3 „Directory Service Providers Survey“.
Points 2 and 3 mentioned above are of major interest for EuroView. 
The question „X.500 National Authorities“, which is addressed in more detail in 3.7, is one facet of „Top Level Naming in Europe“. As EuroView users (public Administrations) are, by their nature, involved in questions on national authorities in general EuroView should endorse this question in EEMA.
In a few public administrations there are ongoing projects building on corporate directories. Promoting migration to and providing migration strategies to X.500 are objectives of EuroView also. EuroView can benefit from the work done so far in EEMA on this question, but can also bring its own experience to EEMA.
3.4.2	Proposed Actions
Active participation in the Directory Committee of the EEMA.
Visit of the 9th Annual Conference and Exhibition from the European Electronic Messaging Association at  Brussels, Belgium June 10-13, 1996.
3.5	IETF
There are (at least) two X.500 related working groups inside the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force): the first one is ASID (Access and Synchronisation of Internet Directories), the second one is IDS (Integrated Directory Service).
ASID’s goal is „to provide an even playing field for multiple protocol development, in the hope that the strongest and best protocols will be selected naturally and will be able to work together to provide a harmonised hybrid directory service system for the Internet“ [1].
ASID is currently developing and advancing the following directory service protocols:
•	LDAP, the lightweight directory access protocol.
•	Internet X.500, defining new object classes and attribute types for various purposes, and defining algorithms such as UFN (User Friendly Naming).
•	WHOIS++, a directory service based on a text-oriented protocol and a distributed indexing model.
•	SOLO, the simple object lookup service.
The IDS working group is chartered to facilitate the integration and interoperability of current and future directories into a unified Internet directory service. This work will unite directories based on a heterogeneous set of protocols (X.500, WHOIS++, etc.). 
In addition to specifying technical requirements for integration, the IDS Working Group also contributes to the administrative and maintenance issues of directory service offerings by publishing guidelines on directory data integrity, maintenance, security, and privacy and legal issues for users and administrators of directories. 
The IDS Working Group will work on applications of directory technology and will track ongoing application projects. The IDS Working Group will assume responsibility for the creation and maintenance of on-line catalogues of directory services implementations. These catalogues will be periodically published as informational RFCs.
3.5.1	Relevance for EuroView
Many of the questions addressed by these working groups are of major interest to EuroView. Topics related to the Internet or those dealing with protocols quite different from X.500 are not of great relevance. The work of IDS on the administrative and maintenance issues directly address topics relevant to various EuroView activities.
The LDAP protocol defined by the ASID group is believed to be a very useful supplement to the standard X.500 protocol, and access by LDAP will be provided by EuroView.
Active participation in these working groups is considered to be beyond the scope of the EuroView project, as EuroView is not singularly based in the Internet. Also, the meetings usually take place in America and active participation would incur high costs in both money and man power. This might be reconsidered in the future if vital interests of EuroView are affected.
3.5.2	Proposed Actions
EuroView shall take notice of the documents produced by ASID and IDS. These documents shall be taken into account by the service provided by EuroView as far as appropriate.
The online discussion of ASID and IDS shall be followed.
3.6	G7 Gouvernment On-Line
The development of information networks around the world has created immense opportunities for both governments and private individuals. To help worldwide understanding of the issues, a number of ministers from various countries met in February 1995. They began to address the social, political and technical issues raised by the advent of the information society. The result of this joint venture is a series of pilot projects, one of which is known as the G7 Government On-Line Project. 
Government On-Line creates a partnership betweeen countries to enable the delivery of public services electronically across international boundaries. Citizens, industry and Governments will benefit from shared information and its efficient delivery.
Government On-Line has a Directories sub-project which is co-ordinated by the Canadian Treasury Board and which has an e-mail discussion group facilitated by CCTA.
3.6.1	Proposed Actions
The online discussion of the Directories sub-project of the G7 Gouvernment On-Line shall be followed.
3.7	National X.500 Authorities
To implement the standard’s idea of a single, global Directory it is necessary that all so called first level DSAs (those DSAs holding entries below the root) know each other and establish cross references to each other. The standard proposes that this is done mainly on a „per country basis“, that is, first level entries in the Directory shall be nodes representing countries. The standard assumes that there are national authorities managing these nodes, but says nothing about what authorities these are or should be. Of course, this is intentional, for the standard can not predict any national regulations. 
At the time of writing the standard national network providers „naturally“ could have been seen in that role. This was by no means agreed implicitly and ongoing deregulation erodes this view even more.
All this led to a situation in which it is quite unclear what the national X.500 authorities in the various countries are. As a result, all organisations which want to register under a certain country entry must agree on a „volunteer“ to hold the country entry, either a single organisation or a consortium which commonly manages the node.
In North America the NADF, a consortium of major network providers has taken the role of  managing the nodes for the USA and Canada. In Europe the situation is less clear. While various national research network providers or national research institutions have taken the role of a „provisional X.500 national authority“ during the course of the PARADISE pilot service, no official regulations have yet been implemented.
3.7.1	Relevance for EuroView
As this question will be fundamental when the Directory goes into operational state, and the EuroView users (public Administrations) are potential X.500 national authorities, EuroView should push this question:
•	in institutions like EEMA (see above).
•	inside the EuroView user community.
The role which EuroView users would like to play and actually can play in this question is open. Wider awareness of this question is also somewhat limited.
3.7.2	Proposed Actions
Study the state of the art of „Top Level Naming“ at the various countries.
Promote Top Level Naming in Europe.
Support further involvement of potential X.500 national authorities.
3.8	Contacts inside the TAP
EuroView offers its service also to other projects of the TAP programme/potential Directory users. For example, at the 1st TAP Concertation meeting there was a contact to the Grasp project which is working on a Europe-wide, distributed „lost and found“ database. The question is whether a directory service based on X.500 might be useful for this purpose. 
DG XIII plans to provide a TAP Telephone Directory with contact information for all projects in the TAP, their project managers, contact persons of each partner and more. The implementation of the Directory is in the responsibility of the SCOPE project. X.500 Directory services should be used for the TAP Telephone Directory.
3.8.1	Proposed Actions
EuroView publicly expresses its willingness to provide consistency and other X.500 related services to TAP projects.
In the case of Grasp EuroView offers a tutorial workshop on X.500 specifically aiming at the question whether X.500 might be useful for the Grasp database.
EuroView shall keep contact with the SCOPE project to promote the use of X.500 Directory service for the TAP Telephone Directory.
3.9	IDA
IDA is the European Union Programme for the Interchange of Data between administrations. IDA’s goal is to help public administrations build telematic links across Europe, thus offering ultimately a more efficient, transparent and responsive public service to the industry and the citizens.
The programme is managed by the European Commission's Directorate General III (Industry), and is one of the components that is driving the European Union's Information Society initiative, as defined by a task force created by Commissioner Bangemann in 1994.
Within the IDA programme a project called "X.500 Directory Services for European Institutions" has been initiated in charge of DG III/B/6 of the European Commission. This project is an extension of the results of the IOP 2 project, and aims to set up an inter-institutional directory which implements a shared and distributed address base between the various institutions of the EU (European Parliament, Commission and Council). 
IOP 2, focussed on directory access,  was one of the interopertability projects done during the course of 1994 and 1995. A directory system is now installed on the commission server and the procedures for automatic updating are under test. Interoperability with NSPP has been tested as well as with a directory system based in UK (MAFF).
3.9.1	Relevance for EuroView
These activities are of high importance for the EuroView project. It does not make sense to have two EU-X.500 projects which do not co-operate with each other. Such parallel, uncoordinated activities would have radical impact on the involvement of users, as no user is likely to, or indeed have to, be willing to participate in more than one X.500 project. Also, an EU X.500  service which does not provide access to another part of EU directory information is quite likely very unattractive. Thus tight co-operation with any X.500 activities in IDA should be sought.
3.9.2	Proposed Actions
IDA activities are followed to be aware of and to liaise with projects related to directory technology. For this purpose participation of EuroView staff in the coming IDA workshop in Rome is envisaged.
Tight co-operation with the IDA project „X.500 directory services for European Institutions“ is sought.
3.10	ISODE Consortium
The ISODE Consortium is a non-profit company which delivers core messaging, directory, and security technology source code to its members, some of which provide end-user products or services. The Consortium provides server technology, including servers, management tools, and client integration APIs using open protocols and APIs, in particular: X.400, X.500, X.509, Internet, and X/Open.
Binary products based on ISODE Consortium technology are supplied by organisations referred to as ISODE Consortium OEMs.
3.10.1	Relevance for EuroView
Brunel University and Dr. Materna GmbH are both members of the ISODE-Consortium and Materna is an ISODE Consortium OEM. It is intended to use products based on the ISODE core technology for the EuroView service. 
To distribute the results of EuroView to a wide supplier and user community, tools or software extensions of the ISODE software shall be provided to the ISODE Consortium for integration into their core technology.
3.10.2	Proposed Actions
Use of ISODE software as core technology for the EuroView service.
Results of EuroView in form of tools or software extensions of the ISODE software will be provided to the ISODE Consortium for integration into their core technology.
3.11	X.500 projects of one or more public administrations
There are some potential EuroView users involved in X.500 projects aiming at more or less „closed“ directory services (a corporate directory service). It is currently unclear whether these public administrations are interested in providing (part of) their information in the open Directory.
3.11.1	Relevance for EuroView
Such projects are of high relevance to EuroView. Access to the data stored in such corporate directories is of major interest for potential EuroView users, and failure to provide access to this information will limit the usefulness of the service which will be provided by EuroView. Thus tight co-operation with such projects should be sought.
3.11.2	Proposed Actions
Activities of public administrations in the area of X.500 shall be followed. Tight co-operation with any project in this area is sought.
4.	User Involvement
A major challenge for the EuroView project will be user involvement, as a directory service does not become very attractive until a high volume of well managed data is accessible. This is, of course, something of a „chicken and egg“ situation, and makes it much harder, but also more important, to find volunteers to join the service and so get the „critical mass“ of users and data necessary for providing a successful service.
Part of the activities to find potential new EuroViews users and to keep contact with the existing ones are the yearly news letters which are planned EuroView deliverables. Additional activities to raise the awareness of the EuroView project are necessary, including press releases and attendance of relevant European conferences.
In spite of those more informative actions described above - which should be addressed to a brought spectrum of potential users - a more formal user group will be formed. The user group shall enable its members
1.	to contribute to decisions on how the EuroView Directory service will be formed;
2.	to obtain a good understanding of the environment (the EuroView pilot project) in which their part of the Directory will operate;
3.	to gain a common understanding of the issues related to the use of the Directory, such as naming and information structures;
4.	to agree on administrative questions which should be commonly decided by all users of the EuroView Service.
While EuroView is the „active“ part in this Group, who prepares any decision by producing appropriate recommendations, the EuroView project shall take advice from its User Group.
The concrete User Group’s working style is open. Points 1 and 4 require some form of discussion forum, which might be either Email based discussion boards (mailing lists) or user group meetings.
Which form will be selected will depend on the facilities and working styles of the user group members as well as the number of members in the user group. User group meetings might be impractical for a high number of members.
It is feasible most of the work will be handled via mailing lists, however, meetings may also be held about twice a year.
It is assumed that the willingness of most of the user group members to participate in international meetings will - with regard to effort and costs of travelling - not be very high. Thus it is proposed that user group meetings are held on a national basis. This might have an impact on the design of the service provided by EuroView. A certain level of „national autonomy“ might be considered, where appropriate, to minimise the need for decisions which must be taken by the complete user group.
4.1	Proposed Actions
Determine a feasible working style for the user group.
Produce a charter for user groups, containing a description of current work items, goals and milestones.
5.	Summary of proposed Actions
This chapter summarises the various actions mentioned above.
1.	Tight co-operation with DANTE is sought.
2.	DSAs operated by EuroView will be connected to NameFLOW-PARADISE.
3.	Results of EuroView in the form of object class and attribute type definitions will be provided to DANTE for integration into the schema used in NameFLOW-PARADISE.
4.	EWOS documents shall be reviewed and relevance on EuroView service examined. 
5.	Topics currently handled by EWOS/EG DIR/ETSI TE.6 and the status of the ongoing work shall be determined and active participation considered.
6.	Active participation in The Directory Committee of the EEMA.
7.	Visit of the 9th Annual Conference and Exhibition from the European Electronic Messaging Association at  Brussels, Belgium June 10-13, 1996.
8.	EuroView shall take notice of the documents produced by ASID and IDS. These documents shall be taken into account by the service provided by EuroView as far as appropriate.
9.	The online discussion of ASID and IDS shall be followed.
10.	The online discussion of the Directories sub-project of the G7 Gouvernment On-Line shall be followed.
11.	Study the state of the art on „Top Level Naming“ at the various countries.
12.	Promote Top Level Naming in Europe.
13.	Support further involvement of potential X.500 national authorities.
14.	EuroView publicly expresses its willingness to provide consultancy and other X.500 related services to TAP projects.
15.	In the case of Grasp EuroView offers a tutorial workshop on X.500 specifically aiming at the question whether X.500 might be useful for the Grasp database.
16.	EuroView shall maintain contact with the SCOPE project to promote the use of X.500 Directory service for the TAP Telephone Directory.
17.	IDA activities are followed to be aware of and to liaise with projects related to directory technology. For this purpose participation of EuroView staff on the coming IDA workshop in Rome is envisaged.
18.	Tight co-operation with the IDA project „X.500 directory services for European Institutions“ is sought.
19.	Use of ISODE Consortium software as core technology for the EuroView service.
20.	Results of EuroView in the form of tools or software extensions to the ISODE software will be provided to the ISODE Consortium for integration into their core technology.
21.	Activities of public administrations in the area of X.500 shall be followed. Tight co-operation with any project in this area is sought.
22.	Determine a feasible working style for EuroView user groups.
23.	Produce a charter for user groups, containing a description of work items, goals and milestones.

PART IV
1.		References
1.   DANTE: Annual Report 1994-1995
2.	http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/:
IETF Home Page
3.	http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/ids-charter.html:
Integrated Directory Services (ids) Charter
4.	http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/asid-charter.html:
Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid) Charter
5.	http://www.dante.net/:
DANTE Home Page
6.	http://www.ewos.be/index.htm:
EWOS Home Page
7.	http://www.eurescom.de/:
EURESCOM Home Page
8.	http://www.eema.org/:
EEMA Home Page
9.	http://www.ispo.cec.be/ida/idahome.htm:
IDA Home Page
10.	http://www.ispo.cec.be/ida/text/english/hact3a.htm#5:
IDA Horizontal Actions
11.	http://www.isode.com/:
ISODE-Consortium Home Page
12.	http://www.open.gov.uk/govoline/golintro.htm:
G7 Government On-Line Project