RE: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.

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

David - But what about distributed authentication and common access
control?
 As this will only work as  read only - public LDAP servers. It makes
all the security effort with LDAP wasted - as well.
regards alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Chadwick 
> Sent:	Saturday, May 08, 1999 6:07 AM
> To:	Ryan Moats; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject:	Re: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> There is another approach that you have not mentioned, and that is 
> to have an LDAP knowledge server. The LDAP knowlegde server 
> holds cross references to possibly hundreds of other LDAP servers. 
> THen a client only needs to know about its local LDAP server and 
> the knowledge server. The knowledge server will return a referral to 
> the correct LDAP server that holds a particular naming context. This 
> method allows both the dc and country based naming schemes to 
> co-exist, as a knowledge server can hold references to both types of 
> DN (since there are no name clashes between them, all the DNs are 
> still unique)
> 
> With replication between knowledge servers, this information can be 
> distributed around the world quite easily.
> 
> David
> 
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