ISO/IEC 9594-1:2005

Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The Directory: Overview of concepts, models and services — Part 1: ISO/IEC 9594-1:2005

Publication date:   Dec 15, 2005

Scope

ISO/IEC 9594-1:2005 includes specifications for how information about objects, e.g. persons, is organized, created, maintained and retrieved. It provides provisions for protecting stored information through authentication and access control specifications.
ISO/IEC 9594-1:2005 introduces the concepts of the Directory and the DIB (Directory Information Base), and overviews the services and capabilities which they provide. It is intended to give an introduction to the other parts of ISO/IEC 9594. It is not an implementation specification.