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Foil 5 Directory Service (3)

From Directory Services for the Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 7 99. by Roman Markowski
The concept of a global directory service was invented to provide a single, centralized repository of directory information that any application can access
  • Solution: X.500 ISO with its Directory Access Protocol, but limited to OSI communication layer that is not adopted by the Internet
  • Solution: LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, which is running over TCP/IP, scalable, affordable
A directory service IS NOT
  • a file server
  • an ftp server
  • a web server
  • a relational database
A directory service is tuned for read operations (to maximize overall search performance)

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