>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.
It is the only real solution (if you are committed to an LDAP
solution); at least IMHO.
So, in 2007 the "common model" is chaos and
UA designers must cope with that.
Yep. :)
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?
Well, both Evolution and Thunderbird are open source, so you could
submit a patch making their addressbooks configurable.
You could write a MAPI provider for Outlook that connects to an LDAP DSA.
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