At 05:40 AM 12/12/00 -0800, Gabriel Landowski wrote:
For the sake of a good discussion can we please have a
definition of "directory service" and "address
registry" to make sure we are all on the same page.
A Lookup, mapping, or address registry service takes a complete, precise
query specification and returns a single, corresponding entry. (The entry
can have any amount of data, but all the data belongs to a single leaf node.)
A directory service can take a partial specification and can "search",
returning more than one corresponding entry.
The simple way to refer to the distinction is mapping vs. searching.
d/
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