On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:47:43AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
let's see o we have massive heavy servers o the most basic/frequent operation requires a massive heavy client
what's wrong with this picture?
You've hit the nail on the head there. The lack of a uniform query syntax across the registries requires intelligence in the client that would otherwise not be required. Defining standard query language syntax / information presentation format across the registries is exactly why the IETF CRISP working group exists. Lets hope that as a few of their I-Ds get onto the RFC standards track we can finally get a registry structure that is so easy to use that people start keeping their objects up to date ;) -- Russell Heilling http://www.ccie.org.uk/ PGP: finger russellh@bela.homeunix.net