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Features of DISP Replication

DISP (Directory Information Shadowing Protocol) is the standard replication protocol for X.500. Some important features of DISP are:

• Incremental replication, to optimize network and resource usage.
• Scheduled and on demand updates.
• Total updates, which allow for setup and reset.

DISP replication may cause large updates which make the DSAs appear to be unresponsive.

To help make updates between DSAs in a Multi-Write DISP configuration as fast as possible, the system will assess the number of updates that need to be sent to a peer DSA and if that number is greater 5% of the total number of entries on that DSA, it will send updates in smaller packets of data.