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Re: Abandon'ing update operations (Was: WG Consensus: AbandonOperation)
"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
>
> In my opinion, RFC 2251 is fairly clear that:
> a) the Abandon operation can be used to request the abandonment
> of any outstanding operation,
> b) this Abandon request may not be honored.
>
> but I also believe:
> c) the Abandon operation should only be used to abandon search
> operations (abandoning compare is pointless, abandoning
> other non-update operations, e.g. bind and starttls, is
> problematic, and abandoning update is also problematic).
>
> To address this, I think [protocol] should state that abandon
> should not be used where the client needs a clear indication
> of whether abandonment occurred or not and, then, discuss
> cases where a clear indication is (generally) needed.
>
> That is, don't prohibit implementation of Abandon operation for
> non-search, just provide guidance for its use.
>
Ok, thats clearly an improvement on the current situation. And you are
then letting the user decide, after providing full details of the
implications
David
> Kurt
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