RE: I-D ACTION:draft-mmeredit-rootdse-vendor-info-00.txt

["Paul Leach (Exchange)" <paulle@Exchange.Microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:kurt@boolean.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 8:32 AM
> To: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Cc: Mark Smith; Peter Strong; Paul Leach (Exchange); Mark Meredith;
> ietf-ldapext
> Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-mmeredit-rootdse-vendor-info-00.txt
> 
> 
> At 07:26 AM 11/19/99 -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> >I'm thinking we just need to define an operational attribute for the
> >root DSE:
> 
> On second thought, I'd like to remove the 'just' out of the above
> statement.
> 
> I believe a mechanism to allow vendors to describe arbitrary features
> is needed.   However, often vendors ship products only then to release
> that they have included unexpected features (ie: bugs).  The only
> way to avoid such features is to use some out-of-band knowledge.
> 
> Hence, I would support progressing a common mechanism for
> describing the vendor name and version IF we also provide a
> common mechanism for listing arbitrary vendor features with
> a "vendors SHOULD list features" statement.

Me, too.

> 
> This allows clients to utilize vendor versioning information
> to address any feature to which the vendor as mistakenly
> delivered an unlisted feature.

Note that "features" can be declared post-facto. And even agreed to without
the server vendors cooperation.

Paul