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D -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT DIRECTORY SERVICES DUE 050100 POC Jesse Carcia, Contract Specialist, (703) 607-6908; Brenda Y. Thomas, Contracting Officer, (703) 607-6895; FAX (703) 607-4340 The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking sources capable of providing a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) directory product to be used for a Directory Service to meet the enterprise-level needs of the entire Department of Defense (DoD). This Request For Information (RFI) is an update to a previous RFI published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) on 27 July 1999, Submission No. 359221. The intent of this update is to solicit information related to enhancements made to released COTS directory products since that time. DISA is interested in obtaining written system specifications and supporting information pertaining to commercial directory products with meta-directory functionality. Areas of interest include product maturity, scalability, meta- directory functionality with support for heterogeneous directories, directory protocols, distributed operations, security, PKI support, directory administration and management, platforms supported, application developer support, and user access. Please address how the product provides the capabilities or addresses on issues A through L. (A) Product maturity: number of fielded installations of current directory products, Status of major meta product releases; (B) Scalable to 25 million objects; ultimately capable of scaling to 250 million objects; (C) Meta directory connectors-join /merge/data normalization capability for: X.500, Netscape, Exchange, Active Directory, Lotus Domino/Notes, Novell Directory Services (NDS), Others if available now, Capability to script special-purpose connectors, if needed; (D) Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Version 3 (LDAPv3) and related protocols: RFC 2251 -- RFC 2256, LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF), LDAP Directory Upgrade Protocol (LDUP), Support for IETF Policy Framework (RFCs 2784-2753), Supported LDAP extended operations and controls; (E) Distributed Operations: Synchronization Methods, Referral and Chaining Methods, Server-to-Server support (X.500 Protocols or equivalent); (F) Security: Authentication Methods (Simple, Digest, Certificate based Binds), Configure Access Control Lists (ACL), Support for Individual Profiles to control access, Common criteria Protection Profiles, Support of secure transport (SSL/TLS port 636); (G) Support for DOD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): Storage of Multi-valued User Certificate attributes, Storage of Multi-valued PKI management attributes (CRL, ARL, etc); (H) Administration: Performance monitoring, Auditing capability, Ability to perform maintenance without disrupting normal directory functions, Disaster recovery capability, Error logging/notification capability; (I) Platforms supported by the product; (J) Tool kit for application developers to provide directory enabled applications; (K) User Access: Web browser client support, Advanced/Basic Query Capability, Customize HTML/XML Support; (L) Schema: Support of standard object classes and attributes (RFC 2252 & 2256), Ability to extend schema based on LDAP format (syntax, matching rules, contact rules, etc.) There is no bid package or solicitation document associated with this announcement. The requested information is for planning purposes and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement action will be issued. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of the submission of contractor's information. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulations. If there is a GSA or other contract vehicle already available for the technology being proposed, please include this information in the response. Firms who wish to respond to this should submit information to John Nichols at Defense Information Systems Agency, ATTN: (D6 A), 5600 Columbia Pike, Falls Church Va. 22041-2717, Telephone (703) 681-2233, FAX (703) 681-2797, email nicholsj@ncr.disa.mil no later than 3:00 PM (EST) 01 May 2000. Posted 03/31/00 (W-SN440095). (0091)

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