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... management and enterprise directories. A
particular goal is to enable an enterprise or service provider to
maintain a canonical source of users and their multimedia
conferencing ...
... important aspect of large scale multimedia conferencing environments.
Without a common data source, service providers must create separate
processes to manage each of these functions. By standardizing the
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... Management of endpoint configurations can be improved if the correct
settings are stored by the service provider in a location that is
accessible to both service provider and endpoint ...
... settings are stored by the service provider in a location that is
accessible to both service provider and endpoint. LDAP provides a
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... In fact, each commURI instance could point to an endpoint managed by
a different service provider.
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... service level
information directly in LDAP. This mapping allows service providers
to adapt to an existing LDAP directory without changing the values
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