Re: Fwd: Call for interop proposals

On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Ludovic Poitou wrote:

> Kurt,
>
> Sun would be interested in participating in the interoperability  
> testing.
> We would have 3 servers to test against: Sun Directory Server, Sun  
> Directory Proxy Server and OpenDS.
>
> Who else is participating ?
> I've seen interest from Novell and Michael Stroeder so far.

I can bring the Isode M-Vault (server) and Sodium Sync (client).  I  
suspect having OpenLDAP there will not be a problem.  Will check to  
see if Apache DS can be there.   Others are, of course, quite welcomed.

-- Kurt


>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ludovic.
>
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Jaimon Jose wrote:
>>
>>> We do have  test suites defined by opengroup which most of the  
>>> directory vendors follow.  Would that be sufficient?
>>
>> They might be a good start, but i suspect they would be kind of old  
>> hat.  That is, not tell us much new.
>>
>> For instance, I would be particularly interested in testing  
>> internationalization interoperability.
>> That is, testing such things as SASLprep (in clients) and LDAPprep  
>> (in servers).
>>
>> There are various other changes made in LDAPbis that might impact  
>> interoperability and should be tested.
>>
>> And then there are various extensions...
>>
>>> or should we define new test suites as part of this exercise?
>>
>> I think a good strategy is for each participant to come armed with  
>> their own test suite of things like to test across all (applicable)  
>> players.  I assume everyone runs their own suite against their own  
>> software.  What we want to do is run each of these suites against  
>> the others' software.
>>
>> -- Kurt
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --jaimon
>>>
>>> Kurt Zeilenga wrote, On 01/11/2008 11:33 AM:
>>>> Anyone interest in proposing some LDAP interop testing?
>>>>  -- Kurt
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>> From: Lisa Dusseault <[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: January 9, 2008 5:13:17 PM PST
>>>>> To: Apps Discuss <[email protected]>
>>>>> Cc: Lisa Dusseault's Chairs <lisa-dusseault- 
>>>>> [email protected]>, [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Call for interop proposals
>>>>> List-Id: general discussion of application-layer protocols  
>>>>> <discuss.apps.ietf.org>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At the Apps area open meeting in Vancouver, Chris & I mentioned  
>>>>> the possibility of doing a day of interoperability events at the  
>>>>> next IETF meeting.  This would replace a day of Apps area  
>>>>> meetings during the normal meeting hours and in the normal  
>>>>> meeting location.  Ideally it would allow people to come to the  
>>>>> IETF for more than just "their" meeting (although we have always  
>>>>> hoped they can attend other WG meetings as well) and  
>>>>> participants may get more benefit and better justification for  
>>>>> attending.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we're going to do this, we need proposals: what topic  ( IDs,  
>>>>> RFCs, suites or functionality) will be tested.  I don't think  
>>>>> interops will need a lot of management but volunteer  
>>>>> coordinators would be ideal.  Proposals will need to be followed  
>>>>> quickly by some indications of who will participate.  WG  
>>>>> scheduling is already open and we need to tell the Secretariat  
>>>>> immediately if they need to reserve a day for interops.
>>>>>
>>>>> Proposals should probably be posted on some relevant subject  
>>>>> mailing list to quickly generate discussion among potential  
>>>>> participants -- not everybody reads Apps Discuss.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Lisa
>>>>>
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> OpenDS Community Lead               Directory Services
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