BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-85-1086
       ENTRY:: May 01, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Towards a universal directory service
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Lantz, Keith A.
      AUTHOR:: Edighoffer, Judy L.
      AUTHOR:: Hitson, Bruce L.
        DATE:: August 1985
       PAGES:: 22
    ABSTRACT:: Directory services and name servers have been discussed and
               implemented for a number of distributed systems. Most have
               been tightly interwoven with the particular distributed
               systems of which they are a part; a few are more general in
               nature. In this paper we survey recent work in this area and
               discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a number of
               approaches. From this, we are able to extract some
               fundamental requirements of a naming system capable of
               handling a wide variety of object types in a heterogeneous
               environment. We outline how these requirements can be met in
               a universai directory service.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950501]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-85-1086