ISO/IEC ISP 12073:2000 PDF

General

Whereas ISO/IEC ISP 10616 defines the basic schema support requirements for DSAs, this International Standardized Profile has two functions. It (A) defines in Directory schema terms, the information that would be required to support EDI users in their use of the Directory to register, publish and acquire EDI identifiers and characteristics and (B) defines schema support requirements on DSAs that are to support this use of the Directory. The DSA conformance requirements defined by ISO/IEC ISP 10616 apply as a prerequisite to the requirements defined in this International Standardized Profile.

This specifies the structure of directory information for use by EDI applications, using existing object class and attribute type definitions from the Directory specifications themselves, and additional definitions, and specifies conformance requirements on DSAs. These existing and additional definitions are also intended to support the use of the Directory by users of EDI applications.

There are two aspects of EDI use of the Directory which are profiled by this International Standardized Profile:

• The schema requirements for a subtree of the DIT (The EDI Identifier Subtree) which may be established to maintain and publish EDI registrations and associated information;
• The schema requirements for DSAs supporting EDI Users, relevant to EDI User interactions between each other.

The conformance requirements for DSAs supporting the former are different from the requirements for DSAs supporting the latter.

The information profiled in this will enable EDI Users to:

• Access EDI User and application information using a distinguished name derived in a straightforward manner from an EDI identifier;
• Verify whether an EDI identifier has been registered;
• Obtain communications-related and other EDI information which may be required to initiate EDI interchanges with other EDI Users;
• Find all the EDI identifiers and other organizational entries associated with a particular EDI User.

Position within the taxonomy

This is identified in ISO/IEC TR 10000-2 as “Information technology - International Standardized Profile FDI6 - Directory Data Definitions - EDI Use of the Directory”.

Scenario

An EDI registration organization, or an EDI administrator, or an EDI application (possibly supporting a human user) makes use of DUAs to store and retrieve EDI Directory information (Figure 1). Some EDI information is stored in a special part of the DIT devoted to EDI information only, for registration and publication purposes (“EDI Subtree” in the figure). Other information is stored in other parts of the DIT, in association with organizational information within the Directory. DSAs supporting such information must fulfil certain additional requirements.

This International Standardized Profile defines information within the Directory in such a way that an EDI application or EDI User can access EDI-related Directory information in the EDI Identifier Subtree or the Country/Organisational Tree, as defined in ISO/IEC ISP 10616.