Requesting mailing list feedback for draft-dawkins-ldapext-subnot

Hi, LDAPEXT Mailing list,

Some of you may be aware of a 3GPP CT4 proposal to add a subscribe/notify 
capability to LDAP. CT4 would like to use LDAP as the directory building 
block for "User Data Convergence", but the service description for this 
service includes asynchronous notifications about changes - so CT4 is 
exploring extending LDAP to provide subscribe/notify to support this UDC 
requirement.

I've been helping Xun Peng with a draft describing this extension, and 
Alexey is trying to determine whether this draft is appropriate for him to 
AD-sponsor. He pointed me to the LDAP Directorate, and we've gotten some 
helpful comments from them on the version 00 version of the draft. Kurt 
suggested that I post a revised draft to this mailing list, requesting your 
feedback.

The revised draft is available as
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-dawkins-ldapext-subnot-01.txt.

We don't think the draft is perfect, and we're interested in any suggestions 
you may have for things we've missed. This is NOT a "must be accepted with 
no changes" Internet-Draft :D

The critical questions are

- whether the draft is an appropriate proposal for Alexey to AD-sponsor, and

- whether the draft is "close enough" to complete to allow it to be approved 
in the 3GPP Release 9 timeframe.

I am subscribed to this mailing list and will see your responses.

3GPP Release 9 should be completing in December 2009 - it's possible that 
there might be an exception for this work, but that would only be until 
March 2010 at the latest.

A note on timing - 3GPP CT4 is meeting the same week as IETF 76, and will be 
making a decision during that meeting on whether to use the approach 
described in this draft (and processed in the IETF) or to use an XML/SOAP 
alternative (not processed in the IETF). It would be extremely helpful to 
have your feedback before November 13 (when both IETF 76 and the CT4 meeting 
end).

I will be present in Hiroshima, and I believe I'm on the agenda for a few 
minutes at the Applications Area Open Meeting on Monday morning. I'm also 
available for any face-to-face discussions that would be helpful - but 
please feel free to express opinions before then!

Thanks,

Spencer