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RE: Search over referrals (Re: LAST CALL: draft-ietf-ldapext-ref erral-00.txt)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Howes [SMTP:howes@netscape.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 3:16 AM
> To: Alan Lloyd
> Cc: Harald Tveit Alvestrand; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: Re: Search over referrals (Re: LAST CALL:
> draft-ietf-ldapext-ref erral-00.txt)
>
> Alan Lloyd wrote:
>
> > > The FIND IETF working group has done some work on this
> > > problem. In particular, they've developed a protocol to be used
> > > in passing this indexing information among servers. Check out
> > > draft-ietf-find-* for more information. -- Tim
> > >
> > We would rather go for deployability - the more protocols
> > supporting the distributed directory service the worse it will get.
> Ours
> > seems to work and scale so it aint broke - so we dont need to fix it
>:-)
>
> Yes, I agree about fewer protocols being better.
> That's one reason I favor LDAP + CIP over
> LDAP + DAP + DSP + DISP + DOP.
>
>
Yes but favoring these means you get a limited system thats full
of system and information vaguaries.
Using the others you get a directory service that has
controlable system access, server to server replication, distribution
and chaining and the ability to have domain based access controls +
binary data facilities (certs and images), component maching, correct
use of labels and contexts, efficient protocols, efficient multi server
navigation, AND lots lots more - with less code.
It all depends what you want to build - and why.
(sorry I could not resist either) Alan
> (sorry, could not resist ;-) -- Tim