RE: LDAP Observation

["Miklos, Sue A." <samiklo@missi.ncsc.mil>]

Just the humorous thought I needed on a cool Friday morning!  Thanks for
the info and remember the statistician who drowned in the river that
was, on the average, 3 feet (apologies to those who use metric) deep.

Sandi

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>From: 	Colin Robbins[SMTP:Colin.Robbins@nexor.co.uk]
>Sent: 	Friday, October 02, 1998 8:14 AM
>To: 	'Alan Lloyd'
>Cc: 	'IETF LDAP Extensions WG '
>Subject: 	LDAP Observation
>
>Alan,
>
>I would like to offer the following (meaningless) observation in relation to
>your comment about LDAP getting bigger and bigger...
>
>This is not meant to be a serious comment, as I am certainly not intending
>to re-open (yet again) the X.500/LDAP comparisons, but it did strike me as
>interesting, and something to share on a cold, wet Friday afternoon!
>
>Today, we have approx 10 RFCs related to LDAP.
>We also have at least 25 IDs relating to proposed extensions.
>There are also 10 or so other related IDs.
>A quick survey of these, suggest an average size of 12 pages.
>So in total, we have approx 540 pages of standard and proposed standards
>related to LDAP.
>This is being added to all the time.
>
>Purely for comparison reasons, I observed that the eight documents making up
>X.500(93) totals just less than 400 pages.
>I.e., The LDAP paperweight is already one third bigger!
>
>Interesting thought for the weekend:  Is X.500 a lightweight variation of
>LDAP!
>
>No flames or prolonged discussion please, this message is just meant to be a
>bit of harmless fun, in reality these statistics are totally meaningless!
>
>Colin
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan Lloyd [mailto:Alan.Lloyd@OpenDirectory.com.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 10:56 PM
>> To: 'Erik Skovgaard '; 'Tim Howes '
>> Cc: 'Chris Newman '; 'Jonathan Trostle '; 'IETF LDAP Extensions WG '
>> Subject: RE: draft minutes from Chicago meeting
>>
>[ ... ]
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>> Sorry to me again. I dont believe in fixing one problem at a time.
>> Becuase one ends up in a mess. I believe in designing systems that to
>> the best of my ability dont have problems.
>>
>> I think that what is happening is the LDAP has now made the clients
>> bigger than DSAs and with more and more options going in them
>> particularly for security - incompatability and pain will be common
>> place.
>>
>> My belief is that a solution to a problem creates more
>> problems, then it
>> is not a solution.
>>
>> As you can see LDAP is now creating more and more problems. Perhaps we
>> should review the design approach.
>>
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