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Re: LDAP based on X.500 '93 (was: New text for X.501)



Kurt

Michaels message is ambiguous. I thought he was asking if the LDAP group
could update the X.500(93) standard, not update its references to point
to the 97 standard.

regards

david

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> At 10:14 PM 10/26/2003, Michael Ströder wrote:
> >David Chadwick wrote:
> >>The defect report can only address the 1997 and 2001 versions of X.500,
> >>since the 1993 version that LDAP is based in is no longer supported by
> >>ITU-T/ISO.
> >
> >Is it possible to update the X.500 version LDAP is based on
> >within LDAPbis work items?
> 
> As previously discussed, since LDAP was not designed for newer
> versions of X.500, no, the references cannot be simply updated.
> We'd have to detail which of changes to X.500 were applicable
> and which were not.  This would get quite messy.
> 
> Kurt

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