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Re: [Ldap-dir] DLAP Directorate review request for draft-dawkins-ldapext-subnot

Mark Smith <mcs@pearlcrescent.com> Mon, 09 November 2009 15:05 UTC

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Cc: Kurt Zeilenga <Kurt.Zeilenga@Isode.com>, LDAP Directorate <ldap-dir@ietf.org>, Spencer Dawkins <spencer@wonderhamster.org>, Lisa Dusseault <lisa.dusseault@gmail.com>, Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>, Xun Peng <xunpeng@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [Ldap-dir] DLAP Directorate review request for draft-dawkins-ldapext-subnot
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Leif Johansson wrote:
>> It's not clear to me whether you are after content synchronization than
>> event notification.
> 
> I don't know about 3gpp but for the metadirectory applications I've
> seen I think notification would get you quite far.

I believe that the line between some content synchronization scenarios 
and some event notification scenarios is blurry.  Picking up on your 
example, a metadirectory application may desire "real time" notification 
but will also need a way to learn about changes that occur while it is 
not connected to a directory.

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Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/

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