Re: search & extendedResponse implementation report quiz

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 06:20 PM 2001-10-22, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>Thinking about this further... Say we have a need to send periodic "update" responses to a client that is waiting for a search request to complete. One could address this by periodically attaching a control to a search result entry, but if the period is time-based, and search result entries are not being returned when the time interval is reached, there is no other response mechanism available to convey the update information.

One could want to do the same for any operation, consider
a subtree rename.

>Without the availability of the ExtendedResponse, one would be forced to return "bogus" search result entries to convey this update information--which isn't exactly kosher.
>
>Is there a different solution that I'm overlooking?

draft-rharrison-ldap-intermediate-resp-00.txt (which has
been recommended to the IESG for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.

Note as well that the IANA Considerations for LDAP I-D
provides a mechanism which would allow additional messages
to be added to LDAP without requiring their specification
as part the "core".

Kurt