Registry&Directory InfrastructureOverall Problem Statement, cont’d

• Directory properties

  • Strongly typed and structured information, like RDBMS
  • Object-oriented, hierarchical
  • Multi-vendor interoperability due to..
    • open standard access protocols
    • core standard schema
  • Extensible schema
  • Highly distributable
  • But no notion of “Join” or “report generation”, etc.
  • Notion of “referential integrity” not in protocol - implementation-dependent

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