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How does GILS relate to the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)?

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How does GILS relate to the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)?

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The Common Indexing Protocol is an Internet RFC produced by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) FIND working group. The FIND working group focuses on Internet directory services, including X.500 and Whois++. CIP is intended for use by directory services when passing indexing information so that a user query to one server could also result in referral to another server based on the exchanged index information. An example of indexing information is a word occurrence metric such as a “centroid” (for example, see ).