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Old 04-29-2013
Yes, many companies have NIS still.
But I haven't met any that uses the netgroup domain field.
NIS can handle a thousand simultaneous user logins, and even 10thousand simultaneous logins by enabling netid lookup in /etc/default/nss.
At least the Sun/Solaris NIS server (and e.g. HP-UX who licenced from Sun/Oracle) has support for automatically building the netid map.
I have only seen small LDAP environments. And one big NIS+ environment.
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Old 08-15-2013
Well I've published my Internet Drafts now, so would appreciate feedback.

Directory-Based Information Services (DBIS) is a new replacement for the Network Information Service (NIS) and RFC2307. Published today as a series of brand new Internet Drafts, DBIS seeks to modernise the way that users, groups and network services are defined and managed on UNIX and Linux systems.

You can find links to the drafts on my blog: Technical Prose

Best regards,
Mark.
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