CAN/CSA-Z243.177.4-91 (R2000)

This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 9594-4:1990. 1 Scope 1.1 This part of ISO/IEC 9594 specifies the behaviour of DSAs taking part in the distributed Directory application. The allowed behaviour has been designed so as to ensure a consistent service given a wide distribution of the DIB across many DSAs. 1.2 The Directory is not intended to be a general purpose database system, although it may be built on such systems. It is assumed that there is a considerably higher frequency of queries than of updates.