So far I've managed to get slapd successfully get read this information to populate it's internal replica data structures at startup. I've also modified slapd to handle writes to the above "replica DN" and reconfigure it's internal data structures. So, replica addition/deletion can now be done by writing to a special attribute. I am wondering if it's better to implement a control to add/remove replicas.
See draft-khan-ldapext-replica-mgmt-00.txt This documents the extensions used by Novell to manage directory replication contexts (partitions) and replicas.
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