I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapext-sorting-01.txt

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	Title		: LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of 
                          Search Results
	Author(s)	: C. Weider, T. Howes, M. Wahl, A. Herron, A. Anantha
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ldapext-sorting-01.txt
	Pages		: 5
	Date		: 07-Aug-98
	
This  document  describes two LDAPv3 control extensions for  server side
sorting of search results. These controls allows a client to specify the
attribute types and  matching rules a  server should  use when returning
the results to an LDAP search request.  The controls may be useful when
the  LDAP client  has limited  functionality or  for some  other reason
cannot sort the results  but still needs them sorted.  Other permissible
controls on search operations are not defined in this extension.
 
The sort controls allow a server to return a result code for the sorting
of the results  that is independent  of the result code returned for the
search operation.
 
The key words 'MUST', 'SHOULD', and 'MAY' used in this document are to
be interpreted as described in [bradner97].

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