ATN Directory Course

The following lists the complete content. The contents for a particular course can be adjusted to suit the target audience's requirements.

Part 1 - Introduction and Overview

1. What is the Directories Purpose?
2. Who uses the Directory?
3. Why does AMHS, the ATN and the ATC Community need the Directory?
4. Where is the Directory?
5. Directories - Global, Private, Distributed, Centralised ....

Part 2 - Directory Functional Models

1. Information Model - Entries and Attributes
2. Functional Model
3. Directory Operations
4. Directory Protocols - DAP, DSP, DISP, DOP ... LDAP
5. Schema - controlling the Directories contents

Part 3 - The Global Directory

1. Purpose of the Global Directory
2. Global Directory Schema - Object Classes
3. Global Directory Schema - Attributes
4. The MHS Schema
5. Global Directory Problems
6. Other Directory Applications
7. Directory Schema Extensibility
8. The Directory Market

Part 4 - the Role of the Directory in Security

1. Digital Signature Security and the Public Key Infrastructures
2. X.509 and Digital Certificates
3. Issues for the ATN Directory Security Deployment

Part 5 - Directory Supporting Technologies

1. Data Communications, the ATN, OSI and TCP/IP
2. Abstract Syntax and Notation 1 - ASN.1
3. Security

Part 5 - The ATN Directory

1. The ICAO ATN Directory definitions - ICAO 9705 (Possibly to be re-released in ICAO 9880)
2. ATN Directory applications
3. ATN Directory and AMHS
4. The ATN Directory Schema
5. How AMHS uses the Directory
6. ATN Directory and LDAP

Part 6 - The ATN Directory in Practice

1. Product Availability
2. Procurement and Profiles
3. Implementations
4. Alternative approaches - LDAP and the Web
5. User Types and Solutions

Part 7 - A Debrief

With a small joint project and discussions about potential solutions in the client's State/Region.

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