Re: Subentries decision - internet draft withdrawn

Ed,

Thanks for the summary.

Was the concensus that we not use subentries at ALL with respect to the 
information model - i.e. just use "regular entries" for this information? 
This seems very easy to do at the expense of these entries "showing up" in 
the directory when they otherwise might not be expected.  Of course, 
access controls and/or search filters would probably keep them from 
showing up in most cases anyway.

I'll get to work on re-aligning the LDUP information model draft.

Regards,
Tim Hahn

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"Ed Reed" <[email protected]>
08/13/2001 10:04 AM

 
        To:     <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
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        Subject:        Subentries decision - internet draft withdrawn

 

Hello, all -

At the IETF in London the working group chairs of the LDUP and (late) 
LDUPEXT working groups considered the issues raised surrounding the LDAP 
Subentries draft I've been working on.  Their decision, as related to me, 
was to ask that the LDUP information model be revised so that object 
classes defined there for ReplicaSubentry and ReplicaAgreementSubentry no 
longer are treated as subentries, and that the work on the LDAP Subentries 
as a standards track document be ended.

So, the draft is hereby withdrawn from work group consideration.

The basis of the decision was that since the Access Control editors have 
decided not to use LDAP Subentries in their document, and since they were 
the only other charter-item document in the works that might have 
referenced the document, there appears to be insufficient interest in 
generalizing a variant from the X.500 version  of Subentries to be worth 
continuing in the working group.  There is a strongly felt (and forcefully 
expressed) feeling among several folks in the working group that there is 
no reason to "dummy down" the X.500 Subentry specification.  So we won't.

Thank you all for your patience in this matter...

Ed

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