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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] LDAP Media Addressbook is Functional
From:       "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas () kompas-media ! nl>
Date:       2003-05-11 22:56:44
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> You mean moving the LDAP server, right?  Sure, Bas just set this up as 
> a proof of concept.  It's a 350MHz PII, with a 20G disk.  Plenty for 
> the current task, but if it gets as big as I hope it will then it 
> will make sense to move it to a different box.  :)

Hi guys,
This box will hit its limits very soon I guess, but the idea of adding
more than just the media address book to LDAP sounds very good. I think
we should implement this even if it's only a proof of concept. If people
get sufficiently enthousiastic about the idea we could always start
testing the grounds for proper hosting possibilities later.

I believe the implementation of a KDE-people schema should meet a few
requirements though: transaction of "personal" information should be to
authenticated 'members' with a reasonable need to know only and the data
should be encrypted in transport. Strong encryption is a tough nut to
crack for a low-end PII but with only a few users in a development
setting it should cope.

Also this list should be explicitly opt-in and users should be able to
leave out any information they don't want to submit. In most cases the
email address they use in mailing lists suffices. My gut feeling tells
me we should also publish a privacy policy for such a list, but that can
simply be hijacked off another site with a good policy and changed to
fit our needs. As far as I know legal texts aren't copyrighted and we
won't be copying it verbatim.

Using a directory for central authentication needs major resources since
it'd become mission critical and thus be a single point of failure. We
don't want that, so it should be implemented redundantly and replicated
across the world to as many places as possible. If we can grow this big
enough to survive DDOS attacks and the like, I'd say go ahead. If we
can't, then I'd think twice.. or even three times before making a system
mission critical. This however wouldn't make it any less useful as a
centrally mainained global address book to those active in the
KDE-community. Enterprises work like this, why shouldn't we?

A question on a completely different note: A few weeks ago I spoke of a
feature that would let us keep a journal-like history of contacts with
individual media people. Will that be difficult to implement? I feel
that such a feature would be extremely useful since we're such a widely
dispersed community and different people may contact the same press
contacts with different press releases. A history log would enable the
sender of a press release to know what others before them already talked
about with this particular reporter and what their response was. That
looks _really_ professional on our part (journalists who don't really
need you get annoyed extremely quickly), and keeping track of data is
what computers do best.

Kind regards,

Bas

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Bas v.d. Wiel
Kompas Media
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fax. 073-6238268
email: bas@kompas-media.nl

 
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