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RE: LDAP ACL Architecture



At 11:41 PM 4/10/00 -0500, Ellen Stokes wrote:
>I disagree with Rob's proposal to moving forward with access control.
>
>Making the access control model spec elective effectively tells vendors
>"don't" implement - and from experience, they won't.

An elective features can be RECOMMENDED or OPTIONAL.  Vendors
generally tend to implement most RECOMMENDED and many OPTIONAL
features.  The fact that some vendors may choose not to
implement a given feature is not a valid reason for making
something mandatory to implement.

Kurt