Re: DSA Metrics

Paul Barker <P.Barker@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Thu, 26 May 1994 14:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: DSA Metrics
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From: Paul Barker <P.Barker@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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> I have  the April 93 version of the above document (OSI-DS 34 (v3)).  Has 
> there been a subsequent release?
> 
No - this version has now been published as RFC1564.  It will only differ in
typographical detail from the version you cite.

> I am also interested to know what kind of response times are realistic for 
> DUA - DSA interactions.  For example, for our proposed single DSA holding 
> 50,000 entries, what practical response times can you expect for substring 
> searches?  Are there any benchmarks I can refer to?

Tim Howes from University of Michigan gets sub-second response times for an
"any substring" search on an in-service DSA with about 100,000 entries.

Paul