RE: draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-01.txt - Discovering LDAP Services with DNS

[Paul Leach <paulle@Exchange.Microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: RL 'Bob' Morgan [mailto:rlmorgan@cac.washington.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:41 AM
> To: Paul Leach
> Cc: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-01.txt - Discovering LDAP
> Services with DNS
> 
> 
> Paul:
> 
> 
> So here's the pitch:
> 
>   (1)  you need to glue together DSAs somehow
>   (2)  doing this with records in the DIT is possible, but hasn't yet
>        proven effective globally
>   (3)  DNS SRV records can be used for this
>   (4)  this takes advantage of globally-deployed DNS
>   (5)  it only works (so far) for directory objects with 
> DNS-based names, 
>        but that's OK since we're already familiar with 
> DNS-based names.

I agree with all this.

> 
> I could write this up more formally ... 8^)

I'd be happy for you to do so. 
> 
> I'll note in passing that though this method is only defined 
> for DC-based
> DNs at this point, it's possible to imagine mapping 
> civil-name-style DNs
> to DNS labels (under some traditionally-named domain(s)) and 
> hence using
> SRV records to find them too.

Indeed. I'd be happy if someone made a proposal to do that, as well.

Paul