RE: A philosophical question about large directory structures

David,

Just noting that all intranets I have set up lately use a private ip range (10.0.0.xxx) and a firewall to fix all problems with the outside world. 8-)

Everybody seems to be building their local directories from one organisation's or even one application's need at the moment, maybe the tide will turn and we can start to re-connect, but at the moment I am not very optimistic.

But yes, a common namespace (and a common schema for common things) is an important starting point.

Frode Hernes
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> David Chadwick
> Sent: 22. juni 1999 21:59
> To: [email protected]; Harald Tveit Alvestrand
> Subject: Re: A philosophical question about large directory structures
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> Date sent:      	Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:04:33 +0200
> To:             	[email protected]
> From:           	Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email protected]>
> Subject:        	A philosophical question about large 
> directory structures
> 
> > I still wonder:
> > It seems that there's a basic assumption that an integrated, world-wide
> > directory will occur at some time, but not this year.
> > 
> > My feeling is that it won't happen until someone creates it, and nobody
> > will create it until someone wants to pay for it. Up front.
> 
> I dont think this is the main point. I agree with Erik that the main 
> thing is that there should be a global directory namespace. Then 
> there will be spontaneous directory connections between 
> organisations who do business together. And there will be thousands
> of these, coming and going all the time. But when you set up your 
> directory island initially, you do not know who you might want to 
> connect to in the future. But  if you grab a piece of the global 
> namespace when you set up your directory then you can be 
> assured of seamlessly connecting to whoever you want to whenever 
> you want to in the future (providing they have also grabbed a global 
> name). Its really just the same old argument again of when I set up 
> my private Intranet do I pick my own IP addresses at will, or do I get 
> ones from the global set, even though I dont want to connect to the 
> Internet today. Many a fool has chosen the former route and 
> regretted years later. (and believe me some people are still doing the 
> same thing today)
> 
> David
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