Re: A tool for getting information out of the Quipu logfiles

[Steve Kille <[e-mail]>]

Paul-Andre,

I'd like to comment very briefly on your "QUIPU vs X.500" comment.

The success and wide deployablity of QUIPU is due to a number of
factors.  One is the approach to knowledge handling and replication:
   a) A means to represent knowledge within the DIT
   b) A protocol for replication
   c) A very simple model of data distribution
These were initially implementation specific, and were subsequently
standardised for the Internet Community (RFC 1276) as they provided
features not available in X.500(88).  A service could not be deployed
without such features.


There is an aspect of the current QUIPU implementation (not inherent
to the design or to RFC 1276) which prevents it from operating when
the higher levels of the tree do not conform to RFC 1276 (even though
they may still conform to X.500).    

It is not that straightforward to change, and it is probably of
marginal benefit to make an 88-oriented change as the viability of the
current piloting relies on RFC 1276.   


A correct and sensible evolution will come with the deployment of
X.500(93) based replication.     This will be supported by future
versions of QUIPU, which will be fully aligned to X.500(93), whilst
still providing pragmatic features to enable straightforward
deployment.  


Steve