RE: A philosophical question about large directory structures

At 09:56 23.06.99 +0200, Peter Jurg wrote:

>unique naming is necessary of course, but there may be several different 
>disjunct name spaces that are (somehow) connected through referral servers 
>(preferably by using NSSR's ;-). I don't think disjunct name spaces are a 
>problem therefore.

disjunct namespaces are subspaces of a larger namespace, and thus no 
problem, namespacewise. It might be a problem discovery-wise.
the naming problem is with overlapping namespaces, or namespaces not 
guaranteed to be non-overlapping.

>The real problem is standardizing object classes and attributes so that 
>people can actually read information from each other's directories.

interesting - this came up > 1 time now....

                Harald A

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