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Re: MUST ref (Was: Last call on 'Named Subordinate References inLDAP Directories')
At 07:29 AM 5/8/01, Mark C Smith wrote:
>In general, I believe all attribute types should be
>optional unless there is a good reason to make them mandatory.
In general, I agree. But in this case, I believe there are good
reasons for the ref attribute to be mandatory. The primary
reason is that a referral object without any knowledge information
cannot be used for its intended purpose, to hold knowledge
information used in the generation of protocol referrals and
search continuations. Like alias objects, I think the knowledge
information attribute should be mandatory.
Kurt