RFC 1308:Executive Introduction to Directory Servi...
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directory service


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... effective use of the network will be determined by the quality and coverage of Directory Services available. ...
... Directory Services in this paper refers not only to the types of services provided by the telephone companies ...


... and at the DNS. Each will illustrate a particular philosophy, if you will, of Directory Services. ...
... propagated, and also introduces another source of potential error in the accuracy of the information. These particular problems affect to different degrees any system which attempts to provide Directory Services through a centralized database. ...
... superlative at providing these services, there are some problems when we attempt to provide other Directory Services in the DNS. First, the DNS ...


... Standards-Based Directory Services: ...
... Directory, while increasing rapidly in the last two years, is still not able to provide real-time directory services for such things as routing protocols. However, work is being done to speed up service ...


... X.500 and an extensive bibliography, see "Technical Overview of Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol", by Weider, Reynolds, and Heker. This is available ...



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