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RE: Feature discovery (Was: RFC 2596 questions)
Steven wrote
> I like this approach, especially when viewed from the perspective of
> replication and the X.500 schema administrative model. The information
> about what attribute type options a server is *capable* of supporting
> is specific to that server. It is not appropriate for that information
> to be replicated or held in the schema definition for a DIT subtree
> that is distributed across multiple servers (as allowed by X.500). The
> root DSE is a reasonable place to hold this kind of information. The
> information about what attribute type options are *permitted* to be
> used with what attribute types is part of the schema configuration and
> it seems entirely appropriate to me to allow this to be in the
> subschema subentry (where it can be replicated).
I agree with this
David
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