Discussion List for Freenum/ITAD Subscriber Number (ISN) Project

[John Todd <>]

FYI: the new "directory" element is now in the DNS zones for each 
<itad>.info.freenum.org zone.

The new zone should be distributed in the next half-hour or so.  So 
far, only four entries, and none of them valid.   Start coding!  :-)

Example:
; new format dns entry
$ORIGIN 256.info.freenum.org.
o                   IN  TXT "Hyjynx Technology Systems, Inc."
street              IN  TXT "14625 Baltimore Avenue, PMB 170"
localityName        IN  TXT "Laurel"
stateOrProvince     IN  TXT "MD"
postalCode          IN  TXT "20707"
c                   IN  TXT "US"
friendlyCountryName IN  TXT "United States"
tz                  IN  TXT "UTC-0800"
friendlyTimezone    IN  TXT "US/Pacific"
lang                IN  TXT "en"
friendlyLanguage    IN  TXT "English"
email               IN  TXT 
""
directory           IN  TXT "http://www.blah.com/dir";


JT


> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:42:24 -0800
> To: 
>
> From: John Todd 
> <>
> Subject: [isn-discuss] Re: Interesting uses for isn
>
>
> John -
>   OK, I've requested that "directory" be the record identifier for 
> that URL, and hopefully it will be running shortly.
>
>   I like the search criteria for an automated tool.  Is there any 
> type of search syntax that can be used from a pre-existing platform 
> like LDAP?
>
> Here are some obvious search tools:
>
> firstname
> lastname
> sub-organization
> building
> postal address
> city/locality
> state/province
> email address (full)
> username
>
> Meta-Issues:
>  - regular expressions/wildcards?
>  - limits on returned queries?
>  - security model?
>
>
> JT
>
>
> At 7:06 PM -0500 2007/11/29, John R Covert wrote:
> > Let's get the directory url that's currently on the administrators' pages
> > into DNS; I suggest directory.<itad>.info.freenum.org.
> >
> > This would be an HTML directory, organized in whatever manner the ITAD
> > owner wants.
> >
> > Let's add another URL to the administrators' pages, and call it
> > directorysearch.<itad>.info.freenum.org.
> >
> > It would be a cgi, accepting either post or get, and would be able to
> > search by a standard set of fields.  For example, if I put the following
> > url into my admin page as the directorysearch URL: cgi.covert.org/itad-288
> >
> > Then searches could be done as follows:
> >
> >   http://cgi.covert.org/itad-288?ln=covert&fn=john
> > or
> >   
> > http://cgi.covert.org/itad-288?
> >
> > and so on.  We just need to define a standard set of search keys.
> >
> > The directory.<itad>.info.freenum.org page might have a window that
> > provides an interface to the directorysearch.<itad>.info.freenum.org
> > page (or any other search mechanism), but if the directorysearch URL
> > is provided, it would behave according to our standards.
> >
> > /john