Re: Directory Services Activities Report - 10/92

["K. Spanier" <[e-mail]>]

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> From: [e-mail] (Russ Wright)
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> Subject: Re: Directory Services Activities Report - 10/92
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> > Reporting on the NIST implementation, with statistics of just under two
> > operations per day, and claiming this as a pilot, confirms all of the
> > worst suspicions on those who ridicule X.500.   
> > 
> > If we are going to include stats, lets do it for the bits that are
> > working well.    A lot of pieces are doing real operation (I gather
> > that one DSA is doing about 10,000 operations per day).   
> 
> I agree.  Although It is nice to see the CUSTOS is getting some use, it 
> does make it look like no one is using X.500.  Maybe something as simple 
> as adding a summary of the DSA stats would be useful.  I would also like 
> to see the total number of organizations in the pilot (hopefully a number 
> that keeps getting bigger!).
> 
> On a related issue, some time ago we talked about adding a set of 
> attributes for counting the DIT.  Maybe this is worth discussing again.
> 
> Russ
> 

Would that mean that an organizational level DSA with about 500 operations
per day is not considered to be part of any X.500 Pilot ??? :-(

Kurt Spanier


X.500: Kurt Spanier, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung,
       Uni-Tuebingen, DE