Discussion List for Freenum/ITAD Subscriber Number (ISN) Project

[John Todd <>]

John -
  OK, I've requested that "directory" be the record identifier for 
that URL, and hopefully it will be running shortly.

  I like the search criteria for an automated tool.  Is there any 
type of search syntax that can be used from a pre-existing platform 
like LDAP?

Here are some obvious search tools:

firstname
lastname
sub-organization
building
postal address
city/locality
state/province
email address (full)
username

Meta-Issues:
 - regular expressions/wildcards?
 - limits on returned queries?
 - security model?


JT


At 7:06 PM -0500 2007/11/29, John R Covert wrote:
> Let's get the directory url that's currently on the administrators' pages
> into DNS; I suggest directory.<itad>.info.freenum.org.
>
> This would be an HTML directory, organized in whatever manner the ITAD
> owner wants.
>
> Let's add another URL to the administrators' pages, and call it
> directorysearch.<itad>.info.freenum.org.
>
> It would be a cgi, accepting either post or get, and would be able to
> search by a standard set of fields.  For example, if I put the following
> url into my admin page as the directorysearch URL: cgi.covert.org/itad-288
>
> Then searches could be done as follows:
>
>   http://cgi.covert.org/itad-288?ln=covert&fn=john
> or
>   
> http://cgi.covert.org/itad-288?
>
> and so on.  We just need to define a standard set of search keys.
>
> The directory.<itad>.info.freenum.org page might have a window that
> provides an interface to the directorysearch.<itad>.info.freenum.org
> page (or any other search mechanism), but if the directorysearch URL
> is provided, it would behave according to our standards.
>
> /john