[2073] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Norther American Directory Forum Introduces "User Bill of Rights"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Thu Jan 23 17:53:38 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 17:52:55 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
NORTH AMERICAN DIRECTORY FORUM INTRODUCES "USER BILL OF RIGHTS"
TAMPA, FL. JAN. 23, 1992.....The North American Directory Forum (NADF)
introduced a "User Bill of Rights" to address security and privacy issues
regarding entries and listings concerning its proposed cooperative public
directory service. NADF members also approved continuing efforts on an
experimental publich directory pilot at their eighth quarterly meeting.
The "User Bill of Rights" addresses the concerns of the individual user or the
user's agent, and is in response to issues brought to the attention of the
NADF.
Final plans were completed for the X.500 directory pilot scheduled to begin in
the first quarter of this year. The pilot will be used by the NADF to validate
its technical agreements for providing a publich directory service in North
America. The agreements have been recorded in standing documents and include
the services that will be provided, the directory schema and information
sharing required to unify the directory. It will test the operation of X.500
in a large-scale, multi-vendor environment.
All NADF members are participating in the pilot. The members are AT&T, Bell
Atlantic, BellSouth Advanced Networks, Bellcore representing US West, BT North
America, GE Information Services, IBM, Infonet, MCI Communications Corp.,
Pacific Bell, Performance Systems International, US Postal Service and Ziff
Communications Co. Joining the NADF at this meeting are Canada Post
Corporation and DirectoryNet, Inc.
The NADF was founded in 1990 with the goal of bringing together major messaging
providers in the U.S. and Canada to establish a public directory service based
on X.500, the CCITT recommendation for a global directory service. The forum
meets quarterly in a collaborative effort to address operational, commercial
and technical issues involved in implementing a North American directory with
the objective of expediting the industry's transition to a global X.500
directory.
This quarter's meeting was hosted by the IBM Information Network, IBM's
value-added services network that provides networking, messaging, capacity and
consulting services.
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USER BILL OF RIGHTS
for entries and listings in the Public Directory
The mission of the North American Directory Forum is to provide interconnected
electronic directories which empower users with unprecedented access to public
information. To address significant security and privacy issues, the North
American Directory Forum introduces the following "User Bill of Rights" for
entries in the Public Directory. As a user, you have:
I. The right not to be listed.
II. The right to have you or your agent informed when your entry is created.
III. The right to examine your entry.
IV. The right to correct inaccurate information in your entry.
V. The right to remove specific information from your entry.
VI. The right to be assured that your listing in the Public Directory will
comply with US or Canadian law regulating privacy or access information.
VII. The right to expect timely fulfillment of these rights.
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Scope of Intent - User Bill of Rights
The North American Directory Forum is a collection of service providers that
plan to offer a cooperative directory service in North America. This is
achieved by interconnecting electronic directories using a set of
internationally developed standards known as the CCITT X.500 series.
In this context, the "Directory" represents the collection of electronic
directories administered by both service providers and private operators. When
an entry containing information about a user is listed in the Directory, that
information can be accessed unless restricted by security and privacy controls.
A portion of the Directory--The Public Directory--contains information for
public dissemination. In contrast, other portions of the Directory may contain
information not intended for public access. A user or user's agent may elect
to list information in the Public Directory, a private directory, or some
combination. For example, a user might publicly list a telephone number or an
electronic mail address, and might designate other information for specific
private use.
The User Bill of Rights pertains to the Public Directory.
Source: NADF, January 1992
