Directory Services

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• Optimized for distribution of IMI

• means, motivation for shared data

• yet another identifier space?

• really one big institutional DS?
  • or many DSs, large and small

• the baggage of X.500
  • unable to express very complex structures ...
  • the o=,c= naming scheme
  • single org-based hierarchy
  • ...

• the baggage of DCE, NIS, NT, NDS

• privacy, access control, data ownership, ...

 

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Early Harvest, I2MI, September 1999