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Re: o and c or dc?
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
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> 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? I've been playing
> with the thought of starting something like this, if there would be an
> interest...
Yes, please. If I've understood the intent of X.500, that is the way it
was supposed to work: one big distributed directory with everyone in it.
What we have at the moment is a directory in which each page is hidden
away in a filing cabinet at whatever organization it is about, and only
insiders can easily get a look at them.
I think that every directory product I know about needs some more work on
authorization issues in order to fit comfortably into THE directory, but I
also think that we won't know the real issues until someone sets about
building THE directory in earnest.
Further discussion probably belongs on the UMich LDAP list.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".
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