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needed by clients that want to contact the server. NSI allows clients to search the<br />

CDS for RPC binding information.<br />

NSI was designed to be independent of the directory where the RPC bindings<br />

are stored. However, the only supported directory to date has been CDS. NSI will<br />

be extended to also support adding <strong>and</strong> retrieving RPC bindings from an LDAP<br />

directory. This will allow servers to advertise their RPC binding information in<br />

either CDS or an LDAP directory. Application programs can use either the NSI or<br />

the LDAP API when an LDAP directory is used (see Figure 12-18).<br />

Figure 12-18 The LDAP interface for NSI<br />

12.4.8 The Directory-Enabled Networks (DEN) initiative<br />

In September 1997, Cisco Systems Inc. <strong>and</strong> Microsoft® Corp. announced the<br />

so-called Directory-Enabled Networks (DEN) initiative as a result of a<br />

collaborative work. Many companies, such as <strong>IBM</strong>, either support this initiative or<br />

actively participate in ad hoc working groups (ADWGs). DEN represents an<br />

information model specification for an integrated directory that stores information<br />

about people, network devices, <strong>and</strong> applications. The DEN schema defines the<br />

object classes <strong>and</strong> their related attributes for those objects. As such, DEN is a<br />

Chapter 12. Directory <strong>and</strong> naming protocols 477

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