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Re: o and c or dc?

At 01:05 PM 1/13/2004, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>True, we currently have a DNS structure that allows for delegation of
>zone authority, and it works well.  What I'd like to know is if there
>is a possibility, at least in theory, to have something similar for
>directories through referals? There would be a set of, eh, root LDAP
>servers that would contain referals to countries, and the servers they
>refer to would contain referals to the next level as well as entries
>with only two RDNs in the name, and so on.  Basically mimicing the DNS
>structure with pure LDAP.  Is this at all possible?

Yes, as demonstrated by various X.500 pilots (include later ones which
supported LDAP as well as DAP).

Kurt