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To: RIT who wrote (36564)	5/22/2001 9:52:59 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello RIT, > If you mention my name to Ed Shropshire or Alan Clark, > you will find that I have about the same view on where > Novell could take eDirectory, plus a few issues about its > current plans. I'm glad to hear that there are a lot of people who have a good clear vision on the directory and how it can be used. One of the areas that I have really had a focus is on the application of the directory ... not just the technology. > Novell has to be bolder than just providing the best LDAP > directory and as it moves forwards the best SLP service. So I'll even take this further, and offer that we might also want to look past a particular protocol, and although we endorse LDAP we will want to support the breadth of access protocols that exist. There is considerable work being done in the XML-RPC/SOAP world ... and I believe that being "protocol agnostic" is a very good thing! Accessing the directory from any platform, device and via any protocol, IMHO, is a good thing. > Novell must provide additional tools/solutions that tie > developers to its platform. Hmmm ... I'm not sure about this ... but I can see where we can provide value add that will cause a commitment. I can also see that if we move faster than the rest of the industry in providing value add with new schema and directory capabilities, then others will have to follow and play catchup. This is exactly what Microsoft does ... run faster than anyone else around ... ;-) > A good example of this is the proposed LDAP extension > API. I'll suggest that XML-RPC/SOAP is going to continue to gain ground, coupled with DSML. We will probably see this becoming a real standard in the industry, and continue to gain ground. It's HTTP based, and very flexible. When we were building digitalme orginally (several years ago!) I designed a protocol that I called XDAP ... it used HTTP Put/Post and all data was in XML format. People that I worked for/with thought this was crazy ... ;-) > Also Novell must have a much broader view of its client > base, when deciding on projects. Novell was porting a > full publish and subscribe engine which would have > intergrated with eDirectory, but this was put on hold > last year. At BrainShare a good few Novell staff > commented that there was not enougth market need for such > a solution!!!! As I come from the finanical markets such > a comment stunned me, as all market information is > handled by p&s. Yes ... this still relates to the "instant messaging" type of platform that has been pushed inside of Novell for years. It blows me away that I have not been able to communicate internally what seems so obvious to me! I am currently working with Jabber (http://www.jabber.org) as the solution in this space. It provides a nice extensible architecture for providing two-way communication and notifications. Companies like Invisible Worlds are adding BXXP/BEEP support ... it's growing rapidly. SSL will add the necessary security, and a good solution will exist in the market ... (P.S. Our team has done the NDS/eDirectory integration work for Jabber ... but we have not yet figured out how to get the attention of upper management ...) Well ... off to work! Scott C. Lemon