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RE: Policy in IETF APIs (was: Standards and APIs)



Title: RE: Policy in IETF APIs (was: Standards and APIs)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:kurt@boolean.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 3:17 PM
> To: Paul Leach (Exchange)
> Cc: 'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'; Paul Leach (Exchange);
> ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: Re: Policy in IETF APIs (was: Standards and APIs)
>
>
> At 01:25 PM 11/18/99 -0800, Paul Leach (Exchange) wrote:
> >Let me try and give a concrete example of how one might
> specify one policy
> >in the LDAP API spec.
>
> One policy?  As Bob Morgan pointed out, policy is not singular.

You are misreading that sentence.

It said it was an example of one policy, not an example of the only policy.

>
> Just because an Directory Admin says so doesn't mean the a Directory
> User must do so.  The Directory Admin may not have authority to
> enforce information use policy upon the user.

Who said anything about Directory Admin? The kind of admin I was talking about is one who has authority over what the Directory User can do.

Paul