Re: RE: Architecure Draft [Dont Use Copy]

["Ed Reed" <ED#032#REED@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan - you are, of course, correct.  A Resolve Name operation which 
does this is certainly indicated as another possible extended operation
for LDAP, which I hope we will get to as we add "full" distributed
behavior to LDAP services and clients.

Ed

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Ed Reed, Technologist
Novell, Inc.
+1 801 861 3320

>>> Alan Lloyd <Alan.Lloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 08/20/1998 19:14:12 >>>
John - this means more human configuration and more code for the client
software... than X.500 systems
regards alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Merrells [SMTP:merrells@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent:	Monday, 10 August 1998 9:09
> To:	Alan Lloyd
> Cc:	'LDUP '
> Subject:	Re: Architecure Draft [Dont Use Copy]
> 
> 
> 
> Alan Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > In x.500 entries can be selected as a copy/replica through the use
> of
> > Dont Use Copy in DAP and this is carried in DSP. This means that
> entries
> > in the DIT need a notion of master or copy indicators.
> 
> Our current thinking is that this bahaviour is up to clients to
> implement.
> Information about the LDAP servers hosting the Naming Context is
> published in sub-entries below the Naming Context. A client that
> demands high consistency would discover the access point for the
> Primary Replica and apply all its operations there.
> 
> John