Computers, Printers, Toasters...
There is no intrinsic limit to the type of data you can store in a directory. So far, we've discussed only information about people. But you may want to store information about shared resources on a network, such as file servers or printers. Then developers could write applications to search for appropriate resources and take action based on the properties of the resources. For example, you can write a utility to search for a particular printer on the company network. You might want to find the closest printer to your department that does dye sublimation full-color glossies. Once the application finds the directory entry for the printer, the application can read the printer properties from the directory and dispatch ...
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