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List:       ldap
Subject:    [ldap] Re: Getting started: setting up an address book
From:       Jon Roberts <jon () jonanddeb ! net>
Date:       2007-02-25 5:20:09
Message-ID: 45E12B06.3080600 () jonanddeb ! net
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Mark H. Wood wrote:
> So is there some way we could gather most of the players and hammer
> out a common model, then get them to all move to it?  

Sometimes maybe we are most of the players. I usually feel vendors 
create enough inferior, self-serving standards for one species.

My own open source work has centered around metadata descriptions for 
how directory entries of different objectclasses, locations, and 
characteristics should be handled. For convenience in development, I 
encoded these in plain old java objects.

In this age of serialized data, I've long thought something that would 
be useful for all directory tools may be an XML standard description of 
how objects may be treated. My object descriptions are intentionally one 
step away from this, like:

http://www.mentata.com/javadocs/examples/src-html/com/mentata/examples/mesh/term.html#line.16


However, it would be nice to create a rich, extensible standard to 
support families of applications.

I'm unbelievably busy now, but starting June I'm planning to write a 
DTD/Schema for what I want to call LDAP Metadata XML (partly because 
that would be a recursive palindrome acronym). Then I'll convert my 
framework to be a reference implementation. If you have any ideas along 
these lines, this would be the place for that conversation I'd think.

Jon Roberts
www.mentata.com

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