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Re: Named Referrals Questions.
Date forwarded: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
Date sent: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:16:21 -0400
From: Leonid Dubinsky <dub@shym.com>
> It is nice to be able to do more and to be more intelligent than the
> standard requires, but the standard must specify enough to ensure (or at
> least allow for) interoperability. Specifically, referrals based on ref
> enries may be managed remotely, in a server-independent manner, using LDAP
> protocol requests with 'manageDsaIT' control. We all agree that "smart"
> superior referrals (David Chadwick tells me to call them "immediate
> superior references") are usefull. If the standard does not specify any
> support for them, servers will support them anyways, but it will become
> impossible to write - say - a tool for configuring referrals in multiple
> servers (from different vendors), and such tools will be essential real
> soon IMHO.
Absolutely spot on. And most X.500 vendors now have these sort of
tools for configuring references using LDAP. That is the beauty of
making them operational attributes.
>
> I feel that the more of the server configuration - referrals, schema,
> indexing - is exposed and made modifiable through normal ("natural") LDAP
> mechanisms - the better. Different information may be stored differently
> on different servers (including DN-based indexes), as long as it is
> presented to the clients in the form of directory entries.
Again, I could not agree more. You need to add "and standard
operational attributes" to the end of the above sentence.
David
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