Re: Another use for ldap--comments?

[Michael Helm <helm@fionn.es.net>]

John Lederer writes:
> What a group of us would like to do is to create a worldwide LDAP
> server than can resolve a case cite to a URL where that case can be

> The question I am seeking advice on is how to handle the parallel
> cites.  There are three different cites for the case.  I would like
> to be able to input any of the three, get the URL, and the other two

I have an interest in problems of this sort too.

I'm not sure it's really a schema problem (in the ldap sense)
but a DIT and modelling problem.  What you want to build is
a catalogue, maybe?

How about, arbitrary DN's
made of of some randmonly generated number or hash of the 
case content (unique primary key)
dn: cn=a32187bcdef987654321,o=something
attributes like
citation: wisc-123
citation: wisc-456
caseurl: (url pointer to the resource)
+ other things

This allows your back end to search on citation, & the directory server to
be indexed on citation.

Now why would you choose ldap for this?  Cheap?  Easy/required to 
replicate?  Or do you intend to embed the "back end" in the client software?
(trying to determine when an RDBMS would stop being the better
choice).