Registry&Directory Infrastructure Summary
The natures of Registries and Directories are subtly different
X.500/LDAP-based directory services are not RDBMSs
Makes sense to combine them into an overall system -- play on their strengths
Project at Stanford is far from, if ever, “finished” -- will continually evolve
- Present deployment effort is “Phase II”
- Phase III will involve policy implementation in order to support off-the-shelf LDAP clients