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I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapext-hobs-01.txt
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the LDAP Extension Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Hierarchical Operational Bindings - a profile
Author(s) : K. Richardson, A. Hodson, E. Andersen,
L. Visser, P. Fantou, J. Pasquerau
Filename : draft-ietf-ldapext-hobs-01.txt
Pages : 21
Date : 23-Feb-98
Where LDAP servers are based on X.500 DSAs for the holding of
distributed Directory information, the maintenance of the
necessary security and networking relationships between DSAs is
an important factor to consider.
The '93 X.500 Directory standards define HOB (Hierarchical
Operational Binding) procedures for the creation of a new naming
context in another DSA, and also for the maintenance of the
relationship between two DSAs where one holds a superior naming
context and the other holds a subordinate naming context. The
standards also define the use of the Directory Operational
Binding Management Protocol (DOP) to mediate these procedures.
The use of HOBs provides a major simplification for managers of
X.500 systems, since it provides a way to update policies
automatically from one DSA to another. But practical design for
HOBs requires decisions in a number of respects not fully
treated by the standards. This document simplifies the
implementor's task by defining viable and practical subsets of
the standards and by clarifying some of the issues left
undefined by the standards.
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