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

[Leif Johansson <[e-mail]>]

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Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
> It seems to me we that we have "good enough" content synchronization
> mechanisms in LDAP, but don't have any (formalized) event notification
> mechanism.
> 
> For instance, consider an intrusion detection system which wants
> notification of all password change requests, including information
> about the requestor and the outcome of the request.  At present, such
> systems tend to rely on vendor-specific audit logs.

Right.

> 
> I could support an effort to analysis requirements for event
> notification and, then, build a mechanism specifically designed to met
> these requirements.
> 
> What I don't support is designing yet another "content synchronization"
> mechanism.
> 
> But what does 3GPP want?  It seems to me they were more after content
> synchronization than event notification.

Quite often the two notions get mixed up in requirements and maybe
that is the case here too. I'd volunteer to help clean up the reqs
with Spencer and anyone else who are interested.

> 
> 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.
	
	Cheers Leif
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