9. Appendix A - Summary of technical standards

Component

Standard for New Project

Guidelines

Networks (TCP/IP)

TCP

IP

IPv6

Directory

LDAP v3 (see Note 1)

Security

GCSB NZSIT's

SIGS

SSL v3

SEE PKI

Mail Security

S/MIME

SEE MAIL

File Transfer

FTP

HTTP 1.1

Mail

SMTP

Primary Character Set

UTF - 8 bit encoded

Metadata (Discovery)

NZGLS 2.0

NZGLS Thesauri

Presentation

GIF 89a, JPG - Open

PDF - Locked

PNG, SVG

Agreed schemas

- Spatial (GML, WMS, WFS)

- Name/Address xNAL (see Note 2)

Text

XML, HTML 4.01 - Open

PDF - Locked

Transformation

XSL

File Compression

. ZIP

Data Modelling

UML

XMI

Internet Messaging

MIME, S/MIME

Database exchange

XML 1.0

File Transfer (Database Connectivity)

HTTP 1.1, FTP

Web Services (Description)

SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1

Modelling (structured data)

DOM, SAX

Geospatial

ESA

Schemas

W3C schemas, XML 1.0

Registers

EbXML, UDDI

Structured data description

RDF

Web design and maintenance

NZ Government Web Guidelines

Access

S.E.E. PKI