Re: Non-existent syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.51 referenced (ITS#2029)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 07:53 AM 2002-08-18, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> >
>>>Otherwise schema-aware clients have really a hard time to get it 
>>>right.
>> 
>> Getting it right requires schema aware clients to deal
>> with incomplete schema.
>
>Consequently following this wording in practice this
>translates to:
>
>Application programmers, don't even think about adding schema 
>support to your application. It's not usable for anything and not 
>worth the effort.

Applications should use subschema discovery to check whether
the server supports the schema elements they intend to use
and, hence, already knows.  Applications should not use
schema which they don't have any knowledge of, except for
some definition provided in a subschema.  Subschema doesn't
provide the application with knowledge of semantics.

Kurt