Re: new internet draft - LDAP Extensions Style Guide

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 11:48 AM 8/14/00 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
>>   The criticality field is only 
>>   meaningful when the control is passed from the LDAP client to the 
>>   LDAP server in the operation request.  LDAP clients ignore the 
>>   criticality field in controls that appear in operation results. 
>
>I didn't think we had consensus on whether or not this was the right
>behavior. (We probably agree it's what currently happens.)

Unless the server returns the response control without solicitation,
the criticality field is meaningless.  Unsolicited response
controls should be avoided (if not outright banded).

Kurt