Re: Directory Services Work coordination proposal

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

> I think there have been two major philosphical breakthroughs that make
> me much more hopeful for the future of a globally useful white pages 
> service. 

I think white page is a, so called, database.

> The first breakthrough is the death of the universal namespace; like 
> Russel's universal set, there is no one directory name space that can be
> used for general purpose searching. An arbritrary namespace can be created
> to optimise simple directory lookups, but assigning deeper meaning to the
> name is an exercise in futility. 

What's wrong with a relational database? Isn't it universal enough?

>   Another technique is allowing each directory server to be a member of 
> multiple hierachies. The examples used in the whois++ index architecture
> document were "topological", "geographical", and "administrative".

Those are important access methods. But if you are proposing to provide
indeces to several would-be-important hierarchies only and prohibiting
global search, I don't think it good database.

						Masataka Ohta