LDAP Groups topic split-out
Charlie <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Dec 2015 18:12:54 -0500
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After reading David Foster Wallace on set theory, I wrote an RFC a couple years back to address the lack of a generic or globally useful grouping mechanism in LDAP-accessible directories. Comments are welcomed. http://typinganimal.net/rants/textify.php?f=draft-brooks-ldap-sets-00.txt If you're not up for a long-read, I would recommend just reading "Appendix D: Other Efforts and their Shortcomings" which explains all the attempts to date and how they've failed to gain traction. Projects continue to try to solve their individual problems instead of working towards a truly generic grouping mechanism that will suit all needs, so nothing's progressing. Simo mentioned this in the context of FreeIPA, for example - they broke their implementation of RFC2307 and moved on, rather than helping Andrew Findlay create a standard that supported empty groups. It seems like each of us is focused on our own potato patch. --Charlie