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Re: what are the server guys doing?
OK. I got the response that I expected. LDAP Server vendors
are not planning on implementing any new extensions. Other than
this language tag thing (which I see virtually no use for), what is going
on is nothing.
Bruce
At 04:54 PM 10/2/2000, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
Bruce,
The problem is, when one tries to implement language tags
(an RFC of the ldapext WG) on the server, they run into all sorts of
unanswered questions and underspecified, or even conflicting
requirements. I don't think the goal is to specifically implement support
for an entry with numerous subtypes within a single attribute. I think
people are just trying to implement language tags in a correct and
consistent manner.
Though we'd like to implement many of the drafts listed
below, we feel more urgency to implement language tags now. We don't want
to just throw a solution together and get onto the next extension before
we feel assured of interoperability.
Jim
>>> Bruce Greenblatt
<bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com> 10/2/00 5:04:42 PM
>>>
I'm sitting here watching the discussion on attribute sub-typing, and
trying (without any success) to figure when I'd ever need an entry that
had
numerous subtypes within a single attribute. Can someone give me a
good
example of when a single LDAP entry would need one attribute with lots of
subtypes present? It seems to me that this is going in a different
direction that I'd like to see. As an LDAP application developer,
I'm more
interested in seeing other features added on the server side.
I can make
do without the sub-type stuff, but I really need to be able to
selectively
delete a sub-tree.
Just out of curiosity, I'd be interested in finding out if anyone that
builds a server has any plans on supporting any recently defined
extensions
(controls or extended operations). For example:
LDAP Authentication Response Control (draft)
LDAP Proxied Authentication Control (draft)
LDAP Controls for Reply Signatures (draft)
Returning Matched Values with LDAPv3 (draft)
LDAP Control for a Duplicate Entry Representation of Search Results
(draft)
LDAP Tree Delete Control (draft)
LDAP Client Update Protocol (draft)
Simple Operations on Subtrees (for LDAP) (draft)
An LDAP Control and Schema for Holding Operation Signatures (RFC
2649)
I've probably missed a few that have been defined. I'm very
interested in
encouraging extension development. As far as I can tell, there is
very
little activity in this area, but I'd like to hear differently. I'm
expecting deafening silence in response, but am hopefully of hearing some
noise! I'm sure that there would be plenty of interested beta
testers...
Thanks,
Bruce
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Bruce Greenblatt, Ph. D.
Directory Tools and Application Services, Inc.
http://www.directory-applications.com
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Bruce Greenblatt, Ph. D.
Directory Tools and Application Services, Inc.
http://www.directory-applications.com
See my new Book on Internet Directories:
http://www.phptr.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0139744525.html