RE: naming contexts

Kurt,

> RFC 2256, 5.2.1. namingContexts
>    The values of this attribute correspond to naming contexts
>    which this server masters or shadows. 
> 
> I should note that the next sentence could be taken to
> mean that a LDAP server mastering no entries may have
> no namingContexts attribute in the root DSE.
>    If the server does not master any information
>    (e.g. it is an LDAP gateway to a public X.500 directory) 
>    this attribute will be absent.
> 
> Should s/master/hold/ to be consistent with preceeding line
> and RFC 2251:
>    - namingContexts: naming contexts held in the server. 
> Naming contexts
>      are defined in section 17 of X.501 [6].
> 
> Please note that verb "hold" (or variant) when applied to an
> entry (or context), unless qualified, implies the server
> contains either a master or shadow copy.

Hmmm. I took "hold" to mean only a master. We should explicitly
spell out that we mean both naming contexts mastered by the server and
naming contexts shadowed by the server.

Regards,
Steven