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

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dumitrescu, Teodor [mailto:teodor.dumitrescu@icn.siemens.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 7:55 AM
> To: Paul Leach; 'Bruce Greenblatt'; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-01.txt - Discovering LDAP
> Services with DNS
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I wasn't aware that "native" means non-X.500. And for the 
> purpose of this
> discussion the X.500 LDAP front ends do support DC= naming 
> components. In
> fact they are/should be indistinguishable over the wire from "native"
> servers.

It's a fairly typical way of using the term "native" in the computer
industry.

As I noted, there is a difference, at least internally -- a "native" LDAP
directory does not enjoy the advantage of powerful knowledge management
inherent in the X.500 directory. Hence, DN resolution presents a problem --
no X.500 knowledge with which to generate referrals.

On the wire, they would be indistinguishable in the case that the client had
prior knowledge of the DNS name of the server holding the DN it wished to
resolve.

Paul