RE: Search over referrals (Re: LAST CALL: draft-ietf-ldapext-ref erral-00.txt)

[Bruce Greenblatt <Bgreenblatt@rsa.com>]

Just for status, I think that the CIP specifications are out for IETF
last call, having completed working group last call.  The CIP protocol
and architecture specifications are standards track, while the index
object specifications are currently regarded as experimental.  Feel free
to correct me if I've got this wrong!

Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tim Howes [SMTP:howes@netscape.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 07, 1998 10:16 AM
> To:	Alan Lloyd
> Cc:	Harald Tveit Alvestrand; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject:	Re: Search over referrals (Re: LAST CALL:
> draft-ietf-ldapext-ref		erral-00.txt)
> 
> Alan Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > > The FIND IETF working group has done some work on this
> > > problem. In particular, they've developed a protocol to be used
> > > in passing this indexing information among servers. Check out
> > > draft-ietf-find-* for more information.                  -- Tim
> > >
> >         We would rather go for deployability - the more protocols
> > supporting the distributed directory service the worse it will get.
> Ours
> > seems to work and scale so it aint broke - so we dont need to fix it
>:-)
> 
> Yes, I agree about fewer protocols being better.
> That's one reason I favor LDAP + CIP over
> LDAP + DAP + DSP + DISP + DOP.
> 
> (sorry, could not resist ;-)                  -- Tim