Re: A philosophical question about large directory structures

Mark,

As per Ella's message earlier, there *is* a central US registration authority.

Cheers,                ....Erik.

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Erik Skovgaard
GeoTrain Corp.
Enterprise Directories
http://www.geotrain.com

At 16:46 99/06/24 -0400, Mark C Smith wrote:
>Erik Skovgaard wrote:
>> ...
>> But we are talking about limiting the search here.  If the DIT is divided
>> into countries, we at least have a good start.
>
>Okay, I agree.  But looking at the problem another way, I don't see how
>we can possible get everyone to go through another registration process
>in order to run a directory service.  Most Internet centric people will
>say "But I already have a domain name.  What more do I need?"  I think
>it is foolish to think we can create a registration process for
>directory content that has fewer problems than DNS does (forgetting
>about cost).  It will never get off the ground -- at least not in the
>U.S.  This is all my opinion of course but history so far is on my side.
>
>> ...
>> >LDAP is sufficient for 2) but not for 1) by itself.  Actually, the
>> >problem is not with LDAP but, as many others here have pointed out, it
>> >is with registering directory services and building a global service.
>> >There is no incentive for anyone to do it... and not enough incentive
>> >for everyone to play nice together to build it.
>> 
>> Exactly!  That has always been our problem.  However, with PKI as the
>> incentive many countries are actually setting up a name registration
>> authority.
>
>In the U.S., there is no central PKI registration authority as far as I
>know.  In many countries there is no PKI deployed at all probably.  I'd
>love for a global PKI to be deployed, but I think the current technology
>is neither sufficient nor mature enough.  I think the wait will be long
>and the costs high.  I hope I am wrong about that as Netscape is a PKI
>vendor.
>
>I don't really see where this thread is headed, so I am going to bow out
>for now.
>
>-- 
>Mark Smith
>Directory Architect / Sun-Netscape Alliance
>My words are my own, not my employer's.  Got LDAP?
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