RE: Internationalization and the IETF

[Dave Crocker]

At 05:40 AM 12/12/00 -0800, Gabriel Landowski wrote:
>For the sake of a good discussion can we please have a
>definition of "directory service" and "address
>registry" to make sure we are all on the same page.

A Lookup, mapping, or address registry service takes a complete, precise 
query specification and returns a single, corresponding entry.  (The entry 
can have any amount of data, but all the data belongs to a single leaf node.)

A directory service can take a partial specification and can "search", 
returning more than one corresponding entry.

The simple way to refer to the distinction is mapping vs. searching.

d/


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