RE: Transaction/Locking with LDAP

[Erik Andersen <ERA@FL.DK>]

>From the very beginning I believed, i.e. back in 1983-84 I believed that
X.500 in stead of ROSE should use Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP)
which was at that time a very well developed protocol based on IBM LU 6.2
and had all the features of two phase commitment and roll backs. It would
therefore not require years, but some added implementation cost, but
probably not millions of dollars. However, as usual, I was alone. The
chairman of the ISO Directory group was totally against it. "Directory is
stateless and shall stay that way". We also had our religious wars within
ISO.

Erik Andersen, Consultant, Direct Tel. (+45) 3945 0736, Mobile: (+45) 2097
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alan Lloyd [SMTP:Alan.Lloyd@OpenDirectory.com.au]
> Sent:	4. juni 1998 01:14
> To:	ERA@FL.DK
> Subject:	RE: Transaction/Locking with LDAP
> 
> 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
> > Goldman, Sachs & Co.