RE: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.

[Ryan Moats <jayhawk@att.com>]

> 
> Some elaboration on this method:
> 
> There is a draft which defines a SLP template for using SLP to discover
> LDAP servers at
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-svrloc-ldap-scheme-01.txt
> 
> It is also possible to define more precisely SLP's scaling
> characteristics. From "draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-v2-15.txt":
> 
>    SLP is intended to function within networks under cooperative
>    administrative control.  Such networks permit a policy to be
>    implemented regarding security, multicast routing and organization
>    of services and clients into groups which are not be feasible on the
>    scale of the Internet as a whole.
> 
>    SLP has been designed to serve enterprise networks with shared
>    services, and it may not necessarily scale for wide-area service
>    discovery throughout the global Internet, or in networks where
>    there are hundreds of thousands of clients or tens of thousands of
>    services.
> 
> 
> Finally, a general comment: Since LDAP servers can be such a crucial
> part of a network infrastructure, it is essential that the security
> considerations of all possible approaches are well understood and are a
> major component of the taxonomy.

Thanks for the thoughts, this is the type of stuff I was hoping for...

Ryan