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RE: Search over referrals (Re: LAST CALL: draft-ietf-ldapext-ref erral-00.txt)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Greenblatt [SMTP:Bgreenblatt@rsa.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 3:42 AM
> To: Tim Howes; 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)
>
> Just for status, I think that the CIP specifications are out for IETF
> last call, having completed working group last call. The CIP protocol
> and architecture specifications are standards track, while the index
> object specifications are currently regarded as experimental. Feel
> free
> to correct me if I've got this wrong!
Experimental - yes it probably is.
Indexing protocol is good for machines - business level named
based transaction systems are good for people - directories are for
people - but perhaps giving humans indexes when they get christened
could be an experiment.
:-)
regards
> Bruce
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Howes [SMTP:howes@netscape.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 10:16 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.
> >
> > (sorry, could not resist ;-) -- Tim