[JDEV] Distributed Directory (OT: server performance question s)

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Landrum [mailto:eliot at landrum.cx]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 6:39 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] Distributed Directory (OT: server performance 
> questions)
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, "Corbett J. Klempay" wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:27:16 -0500 (EST)
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > From: "Corbett J. Klempay" <cklempay at chimera.acm.jhu.edu>
> > Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] server performance questions
> 
> <SNIP> 
> 
> > Here is a question that is probably been talked 
> about/done...say I'm a
> > Jabber user trying to find a friend...how is directory 
> searching (or the
> > equivalent of) treated? I mean, does the user have to know 
> what server to
> > check, or is there a way to have it mask (from a searching 
> standpoint)
> the
> > large number of servers, making it appear to the user like they are
> > searching just one large directory?
> 
> As a result of our Jabster discussions, Thomas "temas" Muldowney has
> developed a good plan for us to implement a distributed 
> directory. Read his
> proposal at http://docs.jabber.org/proposals/jud/.

Why not just use LDAP? Why reinvent the wheel?