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Re: [ldapext] Password Policy OIDs
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:16 -0600, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> Yeah, I suppose we could do that as well. I'm looking at the
> differences between the 00 version and the 09 version:
> Andrew Sciberras wrote:
> I think that this is a good idea, however your email suggests that
> changing the OID's will disambiguate the semantics by which a
> password
> policy is being enforced. Do you plan to change the short name
> descriptors of the attributes as well?
> > Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>
> > This does bring up another point I wanted to discuss though...
> > This draft was written way back when it was popular to assign OIDs
> in
> > I-D's. A practice that has lost favor partly due to implementations
> > using those OIDs and experiencing problems as semantics changed but
> OIDs
> > didn't.
Are we talking about replacing all OIDs, or just the schema OIDs? It
seems that if we change the ones for the LDAP Request/Response controls
then I can see a lot of implementations falling over (or at least
failing to pass proper response information).
Schema re-OIDing isn't that much of a hassle, for us at least.
Cheers,
Neil
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