Re: LDAP based on X.500 '93

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

David Chadwick wrote:
> 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.

Sorry for confusion.

Kurt got it right. I was *not* asking for updating X.500(93).

Ciao, Michael.


> "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