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Architecture for Integrated Directory Services - Result from TISDAG
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Network Working Group L. Daigle
Request for Comments: 2970 T. Eklof
Category: Informational October 2000
Architecture for Integrated Directory Services - Result from TISDAG
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
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Abstract
A single, unified, global whitepages directory service remains
elusive. Nonetheless, there is increasing call for participation of
widely-dispersed directory servers (i.e., across multiple
organizations) in large-scale directory services. These services
range from national whitepages services, to multi-national indexes of
WWW resources, and beyond. Drawing from experiences with the TISDAG
(Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access Gateways)
([TISDAG]) project, this document outlines an approach to providing
the necessary infrastructure for integrating such widely-scattered
servers into a single service, rather than attempting to mandate a
single protocol and schema set for all participating servers to use.
1. Introduction
The TISDAG project addressed the issue of providing centralized
access to distributed information for whitepages information on a
national scale. The specification of the eventual system is
presented in [TISDAG], and [DAGEXP] outlines some of the practical
experience already gained in implementing a system of this scale and
nature. [DAG-Mesh] considers the issues and possibilities of
networking multiple DAG services. Following on from those, this
document attempts to describe some of the architectural underpinnings
of the system, and propose directions in which the approach can be
generalized, within the bounds of applicability.
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