RE: Applicability of LDAP Content Sync to loosely coupled replica sets

["Jeff Parham" <jeffparh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> 
> At 10:45 AM 6/5/2003, Jeff Parham wrote:
> >Is LDAP Content Sync intended to be applicable in this [multi-master
> >replication] case?
> 
> No, draft-zeilenga-ldup-sync-02.txt:
>   Possible uses include:
>     ...
>     - Lightweight master-slave replication between heterogeneous
>       directory servers.  For example, the Sync operation can
>       be used by a slave server to maintain a shadow copy of a
>       DIT fragment.

My question isn't whether LDAP Content Sync can be used to perform
multi-master replication, it's whether LDAP Content Sync can be used for
a client to synchronize from a store where the store is made up of a set
of nodes that perform multi-master replication amongst themselves.  This
cuts across the various usage scenarios -- e.g., a mail client may wish
to synchronize an address book (as a slave) from a set of multi-mastered
DSAs.

-J