RE: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.

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

No - but there is a requirement for directory systems to be distributed
and inteconnect to make a larger system for international organisations
and those international/national organisations to inteconnect to each
other in a distributed way - and to do this without the LDAP
configuration and replication army.

This is a very similar inteconnectivity concepts to TCP/IP routers and
SMTP email hubs  - so I wonder who came up with that requirement - 
However, directories are about distributed information which owned by
different people under their name space - and the objects in a directory
can be very transient - thats if you want to build real OO distributed
information system. So one has to consider the mutual authentication and
access controls issues for that distributed info - as opposed to just
knowledge and connectivity..

regards alan

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dboreham@netscape.com 
> Sent:	Saturday, May 08, 1999 6:14 AM
> To:	ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject:	Re: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.
> 
> David Chadwick wrote:
> 
> > There is another approach that you have not mentioned, and that is
> > to have an LDAP knowledge server. The LDAP knowlegde server
> 
> Er, first catch your...
> 
> Surely the mechanisms under discussion are designed
> to find one LDAP server. The grand unified directory
> server idea is fine, but it's not solving the problem
> at hand, is it ?
> 
> AFAIK there is no requirement for a global LDAP-based
> directory service, is there ?