Re: Market

Barbara,

I was involved in some of this effort, so I remember :-)  Perhaps we were
too early then, but the time has come now.

>From my vantage point, e-commerce is a major driver.  The need for a
widely-deployed and interoperable PKI drives the Directory.  In addition,
network service management requires a Directory and the dynamics of the
corporate world with mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs place requirements
on the DN.  It is no longer realistic to simply grab your Directory Name
out of thin air.  It must be coordinated on a global basis to ensure
uniqueness.

I think the original kick-off of this discussion was a suggested effort to
create some sort of coordination of individual directories which in itself
imposes a requirement for a globally coordinated namespace.  That may be
the answer you are looking for.

Cheers,                      ....Erik.

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

   

At 13:15 99/07/23 -0600, Barbara Jennings wrote:
>   The arguement of global name space is 
>not new. Several of us tried to get this started several years ago and for
>various reasons 
>  I'm trying to understand why interest is redeveloping and would like to 
>  what is the need that is driving a global directory? 
>  -- Barbara 
>  
>                     -Toni Morrison   Attachment Converted: "d:\Program
>Files\Eudora\Attach\bjjenni.vcf"