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RE: Nick names search extension
Oded,
Some form of special matching algorithm could, of course, be made. In
fact, I remember seeing one where common name abbreviations (Bob for
Robert, etc..), however, this would only work within the English language
context.
I still do not see how my suggestion would work in any different way from
what you are proposing. Will DN would still be 'cn=Will, .....', but you
you could also search on other values of the attribute if you wanted to
find cn=Bill. The two searches have slightly different syntax. In the
first case, the DN is fully qualified, in the second case, it is not.
Cheers, ....Erik.
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Erik Skovgaard
GeoTrain Corp.
LDAP & X.500 Training and Consulting
http://www.geotrain.com
At 12:54 98/11/06 -0500, Ringer, Oded wrote:
>Think about a person that is known as Will and doesn't want to appear as
>Bill as his nick name. We wouldn't want to force him to have this other name
>as part of his entry.
>
>However, since it is a common knowledge that Bill=William, When 411
>operators are asked to find a William they're making the extra step and
>looking up Bill as well.
>
>Of course we could hard code this into the LDAP client application and make
>it part of the matching rule. But the right place to store this knowledge is
>centrally. (Otherwise, we would have to redeploy clients if we think of a
>new nick-name.)
>
>
>-Oded
>
>Oded Ringer 212-902-7939
>Goldman, Sachs & Co.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Erik Skovgaard [mailto:eskovgaard@geotrain.com]
>Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 12:40 PM
>To: Ringer, Oded; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
>Subject: Re: Nick names search extension
>
>
>Oded,
>
>I am not sure why you would want to use a control for that. Why not just
>put the nicknames in the name attribute? The cn attribute is multi-valued
>in the standard schema (I have to make this qualification given the many
>different schemae that seem to be published). Only one of the values of
>this attribute is distinguished, of course, but you can search on the rest.
>
>Cheers, ....Erik.
>
>---------------------------------------
>Erik Skovgaard
>GeoTrain Corp.
>Enterprise Directory Engineering Services
>http://www.geotrain.com
>
>At 11:36 98/11/06 -0500, Ringer, Oded wrote:
>>One server side control that can be very useful is the ability to search by
>>nick names.
>>That is, encapsulating the knowledge that:
>>"William" = "Will" = "Bill" = "Billy" = "Wilberto" = "Willem"
>>
>>Than, applications looking for Billy will be able to leverage this
>centrally
>>stored functionality and find the person even if his name is actually
>>William.
>>
>>This feature will be highly appreciated by enterprises looking to deploy a
>>meta-directory.
>>
>>-Oded
>>
>>Oded Ringer 212-902-7939
>>Goldman, Sachs & Co.
>>
>>
>>
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