NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
09/07/05
Today's focus: Upcoming education about DNS and virtual
directories
Dear security.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Who's talking about DNS and virtual directory software?
* Links related to Identity Management
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Upcoming education about DNS and virtual
directories
By Dave Kearns
There are a couple of upcoming events I wanted to tell you
about. First, I was drawn to this one by the headline on the
press release: "Cricket Liu Seminar on DNS at Gillette Stadium"!
What? Was the wizard of DNS doing the half-time show at a
Patriots game? Would John Madden be along to explain naming
systems to the football crowd? Well, no. But it was a fun
vision!
As it turns out, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 11 a.m. Liu will be
moderating a discussion on "DNS Best Practices for Building
Resilient Active Directory Infrastructure" in the "superbox" at
Gillette Stadium - a meeting room, but in an interesting venue
(and, no, there won't be a game that day!). Liu is Infoblox'
vice president of architecture and author of "DNS and BIND",
"DNS & BIND Cookbook", and "DNS On Windows Server 2003." Few
people, if any, know more about DNS.
Coming up even sooner, and available on the Web so those outside
of the southeastern New England area can "attend", is a Webinar
on "The Benefits of Virtual Directory Software," presented by
Burton Group Analyst Nick Nikols. This happens next Tuesday,
Sept. 13, at 12:30 p.m. EST. You need to register
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv6523> if you want to view it -
and you should do that soon. The Webinar is sponsored by
Octetstring.
And speaking of virtual directories, I recently came across an
interesting "historical" (at least when thinking in Internet
time) document. You should first glance through a recent edition
of my NetWare newsletter, in which I concluded that Virtual
Directory Services is a good idea, but that it was too bad that
it has such a deceptive name
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv6524> . I was surprised then,
when I came across some notes from three years ago when I
interviewed Novell eDirectory evangelist Justin Taylor. He'd
quoted to me an article he'd written: "I have come up with what
I call Taylor's Law of Directories, which states: 'The value of
a directory is measured by the number of relationships it
manages and the new applications that result.'"
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv6525> He then went on to say
that the relationships help define the applications that can be
constructed, and that "the more that's in the directory, the
richer the apps can be. A virtual directory maximizes that
richness." I certainly can't disagree with that.
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To contact: Dave Kearns
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.
Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these
respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.
Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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This newsletter is sponsored by Ciena
Network World Executive Guide: Application Drivers: Pedal to the
Metal
This Network World Executive Guide examines the move toward
tighter security, optimized performance and ubiquitous Web
services. Learn about new approaches to securing today's
applications. See what users are doing in their quest for top
performance. And, take a detailed look at present and future
implications of Web services and service-oriented architectures.
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