RE: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.

[David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@iti.salford.ac.uk>]

> 
> Well, yes there are sub-approaches, and so I would modify that portion of
> the taxonomy to be:
> 
> Method: Referrals
> 
> In LDAPv3, servers can return referrals to the client if the server has
> knowledge of where a query might be satisfiable.  Two ways of deploying
> referral information are deploying an LDAP knowledge server or exchanging
> CIP index objects between servers. An LDAP knowledge server would hold
> cross references to possibly hundreds of other LDAP servers, so that a
> client would only need to know about its local LDAP server and the
> knowledge server. 

As pointed out in my other message, the local LDAP server can also 
act as a knowledge server for the organisation, so that clients only 
need to point to their own corporate server.

David

> If CIP index objects are exchanged between LDAP
> servers, then those objects can also carry URL information for providing
> referalls to clients. In this case, the client would only need to know
> about the local server. In both cases, the local server could be
> discovered by one of the previous methods discussed.
> 
> Hopefully, this addresses both methods.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 


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