On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:09:34AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:02 AM -0500 "Mark H. Wood" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? Granted, > >Microsoft won't come to the table until late and then only to try to > >seize the table and carry it off to their parallel universe, if > >history is any guide, but there must be some way to get a majority of > >the others to agree on something. How do we get their attention? > > The concept of a "common model" is broken. See: > > <http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/directory/email/> > > i.e., the email applications should be coded to handle custom schema, etc, > just like any other LDAP using application should.
That's a good first step. So, in 2007 the "common model" is chaos and UA designers must cope with that. That would make interfacing multiple UAs to directories which have been designed to meet a real organization's needs somewhat less hideous. So what do we do next to get them to implement something like your recommendations? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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