Directory definitions (RE: Internationalization and the IETF)

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

An attempt at writing down a reasonably self-consistent set of definitions 
occured in draft-alvestrand-directory-defs (currently expired).
A new version was posted to the open discussion list 
[e-mail] a few days ago.

I suggest we move the discussion of those definitions there.


At 07:41 13/12/2000 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
>At 05:40 AM 12/12/00 -0800, Gabriel Landowski wrote:
>>For the sake of a good discussion can we please have a
>>definition of "directory service" and "address
>>registry" to make sure we are all on the same page.
>
>A Lookup, mapping, or address registry service takes a complete, precise 
>query specification and returns a single, corresponding entry.  (The entry 
>can have any amount of data, but all the data belongs to a single leaf node.)
>
>A directory service can take a partial specification and can "search", 
>returning more than one corresponding entry.
>
>The simple way to refer to the distinction is mapping vs. searching.
>
>d/
>
>
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