Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration version 3 (UDDIv3)
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Network Working Group                                        B. Bergeson
Request for Comments: 4403                                    K. Boogert
Category: Informational                                     Novell, Inc.
                                                        V. Nanjundaswamy
                                                  Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
                                                           February 2006

        Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema for
  Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration version 3 (UDDIv3)

Status of This Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).

Abstract

   This document defines the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
   (LDAPv3) schema for representing Universal Description, Discovery,
   and Integration (UDDI) data types in an LDAP directory.  It defines
   the LDAP object class and attribute definitions and containment rules
   to model UDDI entities, defined in the UDDI version 3 information
   model, in an LDAPv3-compliant directory.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................2
   2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................2
   3. Representation of UDDI Data Structures ..........................2
   4. Attribute Type Definitions ......................................6
   5. Object Class Definitions .......................................28
   6. Name Forms .....................................................32
   7. DIT Structure Rules ............................................35
   8. Security Considerations ........................................37
   9. IANA Considerations ............................................37
   10. Normative References ..........................................40

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1.  Introduction

   This document defines the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
   [LDAPv3] schema elements to represent the core data structures
   identified in the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
   version 3 [UDDIv3] information model.  This includes a
   businessEntity, a businessService, a bindingTemplate, a tModel, a
   publisherAssertion, and a Subscription.  Portions of [UDDIv3] are
   repeated here for clarity.

2.  Conventions Used in This Document

   The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

   All schema definitions are provided using [RFC2252] descriptions, and
   are line-wrapped for readability only.

3.  Representation of UDDI Data Structures

   The information that makes up a registration in a UDDI registry
   consists of these data structure types.  This division by information
   type provides simple partitions to assist in the rapid location and
   understanding of the different information that makes up a
   registration.

   The individual instance data managed by a UDDI registry is sensitive
   to the parent/child relationships found in the schema.  A
   businessEntity object contains one or more unique businessService
   objects.  Similarly, individual businessService objects contain
   specific instances of bindingTemplate, which in turn contains
   information that includes pointers to specific instances of tModel
   objects.

   It is important to note that no single instance of a core schema type
   is ever "contained" by more than one parent instance.  This means
   that only one specific businessEntity object (identified by its
   unique key value) will ever contain or be used to express information
   about a specific instance of a businessService object (also
   identified by its own unique key value).

3.1.  businessEntity

   The businessEntity object represents all known information about a
   business or entity that publishes descriptive information about the
   entity as well as the services that it offers.  The businessEntity is
   the top-level container that accommodates holding descriptive

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   information about a business or entity.  Service descriptions and
   technical information are expressed within a businessEntity by a
   containment relationship.

3.1.1.  Representation in the Directory

   A businessEntity is represented in the directory by the attributes
   uddiBusinessKey, uddiAuthorizedName, uddiOperator, uddiDiscoveryURLs,
   uddiName, uddiDescription, uddiIdentifierBag, uddiCategoryBag, and
   uddiv3DigitalSignature, along with corresponding v3 keys viz.