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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-mmeredit-rootdse-vendor-info-00.txt
Hi,
> "Paul Leach (Exchange)" schrieb:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:kurt@boolean.net]
> > Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 7:27 AM
> > To: Mark Smith
> > Cc: Peter Strong; Paul Leach (Exchange); Mark Meredith; ietf-ldapext
>
> > Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-mmeredit-rootdse-vendor-info-00.txt
> >
> >
> > I'm thinking we just need to define an operational attribute for the
>
> > root DSE:
> >
> > supportedFeature
> >
> > The values of this attribute are OBJECT IDENTIFIERs identifying
> the
> > supported optional or vendor-defined features which the
> > server supports.
> >
> > ( supportedFeatureOID NAME 'supportedFeature'
> > SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.38 USAGE dSAOperation )
> >
> > The key is that it lists features directly and eliminates the
> > need to maintain out of band feature lists for each vendor version.
>
> This sounds fine to me. Having vendor name and version is fine, too,
> as long as it is _explicitly_ declared that it isn't to be used to
> discover features.
I agree that the vendor name (or product name) and version is fine to
find
out with which product and which version I interwork etc. We for example
support
RFC 1565 (Network Services Monitoring MIB) where all this information
is already availible and it will not be a problem to make this
information
availible to a ldap-client when it retrieves the Root.
But I hope we will not encourage client implementors to build there
clients
that they derive special features of the product from this information.
For example: we support schema publishing over ldap but if an
administrator
set the access control that only special users (administrators) can
read
the ldapsubschema-subentry then a client have to live without exploring
the
schema.
>
> In addition to the above, shouldn't one look at supported controls,
> and what classes exist, rather than try to categorize everything as a
> "feature"?
Can somebody give me a real example for this feature list ? Is it
something
like:
Supported features: TLS, Cram-MD5, schema-publishing, LDAP-ACL,
Ldap-replication , etc ??
Bye
Helmut
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