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Re: Knowledge Reference Drafts
> At today's ldapext meeting I said that I thought that the two
> Knowledge Reference drafts were overlapping rather than complementary,
> and agreed to send mail about it to the list.
>
> The two drafts I found are at
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-knowledge-00.tx
> t and
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-namedref-00.txt
> - I don't know whether thay are the two that Mark was referring to,
> but they are the only ones listed on the ldapext web page at
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ldapext-charter.html
>
> Rather than handling differeent cases, it looks to me as though the
> knowledge-00 draft describes a more elaborate version of the same idea
> that is in the namedref-00 draft.
As the primary author of the knowledge ID, I would agree with your
assessment. I did give some rationale for this draft to the list when I
originally posted the draft, but I dont know if the rationale has been
kept with the ID
David
>I could be wrong on this - if I am
> then I hereby make a plea for explanatory text in both drafts pointing
> out the relation between them.
>
> If I'm not wrong then I suggest that we need to choose between the two
> drafts rather than to merge them.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
> +++++
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