Re: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.

[Peter Gietz <peter.gietz@directory.dfn.de>]

On 10-May-99 Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu wrote:
> d.w.chadwick@iti.salford.ac.uk said:
>> 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.  
> 
> Good point, though I think this approach is essentially
> covered by the 
> "Method: CIP index objects" section in Ryan's message.
> Spcifically using CIP 
> and/or using referral attributes/objects are probably
> sub-approaches.
> 
> Jeff

The European Co-funded project DESIRE (www.desire.org) is working
on a similiar solution. An LDAP server which communicates (via a
"virtual" db-backend) with a referral index that is based on CIP
Tagged Index Objects and fed by LDAP crawlers. DANTE plans to
set up an European infrastructure of such referral index servers.

Peter


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