This note gives advice to sites who wish to  participate  in
the Directory Pilot about:

o    What to put in their bid

o    What the onus is on a participating site

Content  of  bid  for  hardware  to  run  Directory  Service
software

This section gives guidance as to a suitable form of bid.

     -    A bid should be service oriented.

     -    A bid should show how  the  service  provider  was
          liaising  with  the  institution's  administrative
          departments.

     -    A bid should discuss the  steps  taken  to  get  a
          basic system going.

     -    A bid should discuss what the site  was  proposing
          to do to get the system out to users.

     -    A bid should discuss data  gathering  and  ongoing
          data maintenance arrangements.

Submit bids to

Bids should be submitted to Jim Craigie of the JNT.




Onus on participating sites

There is an onus on  participating  sites  to  report  their
experiences  to  the  group.   The reporting to the group is
tied in with the cycle of Directory Group meetings.

Reporting requirements are as follows:

-    Each site should circulate by electronic mail  a  plain
     text copy of their report to the Directory Group.

-    Pretty printed reports should be given to the  JNT  for
     circulation.

-    Participating sites were expected to attend  the  meet-
     ings

The reports should contain at least the following:

-    List of what failed, smattering of  what  worked.  (The
     exact nature of this would obviously change as the pro-
     ject evolved.)

-    Data acquisition

-    Data maintenance and management

It was important that the reports delineated clearly between
system  and data aspects.  In the short term at least, there
would be no common format of report -  this  might  be  pro-
crustean with regard to the richness of sites' experience!