RE: Transaction/Locking with LDAP

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

I hope not.

Otherwise we will need resource locking and transaction recovery
mechanisms in LDAP and that is somewhat difficult in distributed
directory systems . It will need this - otherwise the transaction ID
will just be a cosmetic protocol field.

Isnt it odd that one can add a few bytes to a protocol field to say
"transaction ID" and put that on a sheet of paper in 10 minutes.  But to
make that work in a commercial tested large scale object oriented
distributed name based transaction system that has true rolback
integrity it will take years and millions of dollars...

regards alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ringer, Oded [SMTP:Oded.Ringer@gs.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 04, 1998 1:50 AM
> To:	'ietf-ldapext@netscape.com'
> Subject:	Transaction/Locking with LDAP
> 
> Is there any thought to include transaction management in LDAP ?
> -Oded
> 
> 
> Oded Ringer  212-902-7939
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