On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Mark R Bannister <[email protected]> wrote:
> In August this year, I submitted some new IETF drafts with the intent that > they would replace NIS and RFC2307. It introduces Directory Based > Information Services (DBIS). > > Michael Ströder suggested I post a link to this mailing list. The following > article (and further articles on my blog) discuss some of the aspects of > DBIS, and link to all of the relevant internet drafts: > http://technicalprose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/introducing-dbis.html > > I am currently working on a reference implementation here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbis/ > > This may be coming out of the blue for many of you, and I appreciate you may > need some time to read and digest my drafts, and then ask me lots of > questions. > > But my first question to you is, where is the best place for discussion > related to these drafts? Is this the mailing list to use? This mailing list is usually narrowly focused on technical matters specifically related to the OpenLDAP server implementation. It’s certainly a good idea to solicit the opinion of LDAP implementers when proposing a new LDAP application, but I wouldn’t rely on this list as a place to have general discussion about one application in particular. I think the IETF’s NFSv4 working group (mailto:[email protected]) would be interested in this work, especially Andy Adamson, who is working on multi-domain authentication and authorization. Have a look at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adamson-nfsv4-multi-domain-federated-fs-reqs/ There is also the working group’s efforts behind FedFS, which is meant as a partial replacement for autofs, and stores data in LDAP. RFC 5617 is a starting place. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
