DESIRE Toolkit Components

2.10 DESIRE Generic Distributed Indexing Server

Description

The Generic Distributed Indexing Server collects, indexes and makes available forward knowledge about resources, based on the IETF Common Indexing Protocol (CIP). The stored CIP forward-knowledge objects are searchable for clients using (possibly various) search protocols. The software includes:

conversion scripts to convert LDIF and whois++ Centroids into Tagged Index Objects (TIOs) of the IETF Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)

HTTP server scripts for storing and retrieving TIOs over HTTP

HTTP server scripts and a back-end database for searching stored TIOs using LDAP URLs over HTTP (may include other URLs in the future)

LDAPv3 native protocol server to convert LDAPv2/v3 queries into LDAP URLs over HTTP

security features for safe transport of forward knowledge

The Generic Indexing Server provides a referral-based distributed indexing service that can (for example) offer a single entry point to a set of LDAP servers in an organisation or country, or a set of resource discovery services.

demonstrator:
http://www.sec.nl/persons/henny/desire/ldap/d2_ldcv2_wrap.html

technical documentation:
http://www.surfnet.nl/innovatie/surf-ace/search/ldap/d2_ldap_tio/