Title: Definitions for talking about directories
Author(s): H. Alvestrand.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Apr 2002
Length: 21541
When discussing systems for making information accessible through the Internet in standardized ways, it may be useful if the people who are discussing it have a common understanding of the terms they use.
For example, a reference to this document would give one the power to agree that the DNS (Domain Name System) is a global lookup repository with perimeter integrity and loose, converging consistency. On the other hand, a LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directory server is a local, centralized repository with both lookup and search capability.
This document discusses one group of such systems which is known under the term, "directories".
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