Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldup-lcup-04.txt

Is it the authors intent to allow state-based server 
implementation of this protocol?  It appears to me that
server implementations would need to maintain historical
information in order to appropriately support this
protocol.

Kurt

At 03:53 AM 3/7/2003, [email protected] wrote:
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>This draft is a work item of the LDAP Duplication/Replication/Update Protocols Working Group of the IETF.
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>        Title           : LDAP Client Update Protocol
>        Author(s)       : R. Megginson, M. Smith, O. Natkovich, J. Parham
>        Filename        : draft-ietf-ldup-lcup-04.txt
>        Pages           : 27
>        Date            : 2003-3-6
>        
>This document defines the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 
>(LDAP) Client Update Protocol (LCUP). The protocol is intended to 
>allow an LDAP client to synchronize with the content of a directory 
>information tree (DIT) stored by an LDAP server and to be notified 
>about the changes to that content.
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