The osiride directory system: status and perspectives

This paper outlines some design aspects of the Distributed Directory System which will run in the framework of the OSIRIDE project. The aspects related to distributed name resolution will be enphasized and the main ideas for an efficient algorithm, which makes use of a particular kind of cache in the distributed representation of the name space, will be sketched. The first version of the OSIRIDE Directory System will be implemented and tested on a system made up of a cluster of IBM PCs (XT and AT) connected to the IBM Token Ring Local Area Network.