RE: About aliases an X.500....More on CIP

[Alan Lloyd <Alan.Lloyd@OpenDirectory.com.au>]

Well this is a well informed position :-)

The comment says on instant of an interface - I did not say "through the
one and only interface" - I bet a DAP (or LDAP) ient can scan 20 DSAs a
lot faster than a highly manually configured set of 20 LDAP servers
which all do referrals.

But that is because X.500 is complex  - but it does give better service
- and  we (with our X.500 DSA/LDAP server) can even integrate single
function LDAP servers to work in a distributed manner under a common
access control regime.

LDAP only systems cannot even intergrate their servers.as per X.500  -
thats too complex "quote from an RFC" :-)

ie We have the car doors -  and the car - in a market that wants to
travel.

regards alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dboreham@netscape.com [SMTP:dboreham@netscape.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 09, 1998 9:26 AM
> To:	ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject:	Re: About aliases an X.500....More on CIP
> 
> Alan Lloyd wrote: 
> 	        20 DSAs using DSP with subsecond responses to one
> instance of a 
> 	client interface (no referrals) cant be wrong.
> <slapd forehead> 
> Now I understand: there's only supposed to be _one_ client 
> of the X.500 service, and it can be dead slow. 
> And here I am worrying when response time isn't sub-_millisecond_... 
>   
>