[Ietf-not43] oss implementation release

[Leslie Daigle]

I think there is some confusion because you replied to
the message re. iris implementation with a question that
is about (service) requirements.

So the IRIS protocol doesn't do query distribution; it
should (does) have mechanisms that will allow IRIS servers
to play in a network of servers that provides the overall
*service* (entity references, search continuations).

The ldap-whois proposal includes detail about how to find
the authoritative server for a given lookup (e.g., domain
name).  That is also not in the IRIS protocol definition.
But, it would be possible (and, to my way of thinking,
necessary?) to define how IRIS leaf servers can be
coordinated into such a federation.  But that is out of
band of the IRIS protocol. As is the "how to do query
routing" answer.

Leslie.

Andrew Newton wrote:
> Rick Wesson wrote:
> 
>>
>> my question is if the query for a contact must be distributed to all
>> servers then some servers with few registrations/contacts will be doing
>> alot of processing to respond with a negative result.
>>
>> I feel that queries for contacts will be a burdon on the servers with few
>> contacts. When we have requirements that require all participiants to
>> provision equal bandwith and cpu for processing even when they know they
>> will rarely have a positive result to return.
>>
>> We need to discuss the requirement on support of searches for objects 
>> that
>> require the client to query every participating server where no
>> authortaive index exists.
> 
> 
> Ok.  I understand the concern now.
> 
> The requirement is that the protocol be capable of distributing queries. 
>  Which service operators participate in the query distribution is a 
> matter of policy.
> 
> In addition, there is nothing preventing additional measures where 
> queries are distributed in a more intelligent manner vs. a shotgun 
> approach (i.e. index hints).
> 
> -andy
> 
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