Re: Comments from C Huitema ...

Alan Kong <Alan.Kong@mel.dit.csiro.au> Thu, 07 January 1993 23:20 UTC

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To: pays@faugeres.inria.fr
Cc: rosenthl@mcc.com, wg-nap@rare.nl, osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, kong@mel.dit.csiro.au
Subject: Re: Comments from C Huitema ...
In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 Jan 93 11:53:09 BST." <726403989.28488.0@faugeres.inria.fr>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 09:42:47 +1100
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From: Alan Kong <Alan.Kong@mel.dit.csiro.au>

> From: pays@faugeres.inria.fr
>...
>By now, my only solution is to clearly use different and explicit
>RDN for the relative root of the 2 subtrees, so that
>   giving a complete DN one or the other would be obtained
>   using a search, both could be given back
>	BUT with a returned DN showing clearly that
>	  . one is the "authoritative" answer
>	  . the other is the "non-authoritative" answer
>
>eg.
>
>something like
>
>  <C=FR; O=INRIA; OU=DMI; CN="Paul-Andre PAYS">
>and
>   <C=FR; O=INRIA; <OU=DMI-Non-Authoritative>; CN="Paul-Andre PAYS">
>
>or better (probabaly) usage of a multi-attribute RDN
>
>such as
>	<C=FR; O=INRIA; <OU=DMI; Status=Authoritative>; ....
>	<C=FR; O=INRIA; <OU=DMI; Status=Non-Authoritative>; ...
>
>regards,
>
>-- PAP

Isn't it confusing sometimes when you perform a search and it returns two sets of information?
Why not return the "authoritative" answer only when one does a search in the directory. When a user
wants to modify his/her entry or look at some "updated" information then the
"un-authoritative"answer be used.


Regards - Alan