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RE: inetOrgPerson
see http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/asid-charter.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcs@netscape.com [mailto:mcs@netscape.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 11:22 AM
> To: Erik Skovgaard
> Cc: ietf-asid@umich.edu; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: Re: inetOrgPerson
>
>
> Erik Skovgaard wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > I see that the inetOrgPerson draft document is now listed
> as a work item
> > from this group. I thought this was your own initiative?
>
> It is. Where did you see it listed as a work item of the
> ASID group? I
> did notice that the Internet Draft announcement was copied
> to the ASID
> list, but that is a mistake I think. The first draft of
> inetOrgPerson
> was published two years ago under ASID but that was corrected with
> subsequent drafts.
>
> I just issued a last call on this document on the LDAPEXT list (with
> plans to ask that it be published as an Informational RFC in
> a couple of
> weeks time), so I copied LDAPEXT on this reply. Apologies for the
> duplicate copies -- let's move the discussion to LDAPEXT as I suspect
> most everyone on ASID is also on LDAPEXT.
>
> > ...
> > I won't start an agument over which attributes should or
> should not be in
> > the definition (I know btter than that :-), but I have a
> comment to the
> > document:
> >
> > Object Identifiers in an RFC that is for general use (as
> opposed to one
> > that describe a proprietary product or a practice of a
> specific vendor)
> > should *not* use OIDs that are allocated to a particular
> vendor, IMHO. I
> > would prefer that we assign OIDs from the IANA pool.
>
> This is a somewhat religious debate that I have heard before. In my
> opinion, an OID is an OID is an OID regardless of who
> assigns it. Why
> does it matter to you where the OIDs come from? Are you
> concerned that
> a vendor like Netscape will change the OIDs or use them for
> some other
> purpose? To some extent the inetOrgPerson does in fact describe
> practice that was started by Netscape, but it is fairly widely used
> now. Changing OIDs will clearly be disruptive to existing
> deployments
> and products.
>
>
> > ...
> > Note also that the 'carLicense' is somewhat US-centric.
> In many parts of
> > the world people use mopeds or bicycles as the main mode
> of transportation.
> > Many of these will have a license plate too. How about calling it
> > 'transportationLicense'?
>
> I agree the name could be better. But it is only an attribute type
> name, and changing it would certainly break the existing
> deployments and
> products that use it. We would need to add another
> attribute type, and
> that doesn't really make sense to me at this point in time.
>
> Thanks for your comments so far.
>
> --
> Mark Smith
> Directory Architect / Netscape Communications Corp.
> My words are my own, not my employer's. Got LDAP?
>