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... Although the DNS has served superlatively for the purpose it was
developed, i.e. to allow maintenance of the namespace in a
distributed fashion, and to provide very rapid lookups in the
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... distributed fashion, and to provide very rapid lookups in the
namespace, there are, of course, some limitations. Although there has
been some discussion of including other types of information in the
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... Single Global Namespace: ...
... Much like the DNS, X.500 provides a single homogeneous namespace
to users. The X.500 namespace ...
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X.500 hierarchically organizes the namespace in the Directory
Information Base (DIB); recall that this hierarchical organization is
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... An enormously large potential namespace. ...
... A uniform namespace with local extensibility. ...
... A uniform namespace with local extensibility.
The Directory provides a uniform namespace, but local
specialized directories can also be implemented. Locally
defined extensions can include new object classes ...
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Searches can be slow, for two reasons: a) searches across a widely
distributed portion of the namespace (c=US, for example) has a delay
which is partially caused by network transmission times, and can be
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