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Re: Introducing a Directory Service rejected as BCP

Russ Wright <Wright@lbl.gov> Tue, 13 February 1996 18:44 UTC

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From: Russ Wright <Wright@lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: Introducing a Directory Service rejected as BCP
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At 2:54 PM 2/12/96, Chris Weider wrote:
>Hi Russ:
>  Just for your information, the Indexing stuff has been implemented and
>deployed since last June, and there are more than 80 servers in the global
>mesh. We have changed the spec to incorporate lessons learned during
>the deployment.

Hi Chris,

Good, things are proceeding well but there is still a long way to go before
we have a global directory service.  My guess is that w/in a few years we
might have a solution that combines LDAP, X.500, Whois++ and Centroids.

Russ

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