Re: WG Charter Proposal v2

Chris Apple wrote:

> Well, for starters:
> 
>   The following activities are beyond the scope of this WG:
>         Revising the LDAP "core" technical specification [RFC3377
>         and its normative references] (including its information
>        and service models).
> 
> 
> CWA> This is an old discussion based on a perusal of the mailing
>      list archive. However, since views may be different now than
>      in the past. I think its worth waiting for others to weigh
>      in on the issue. If a substantial portion of other WG members
>      state their agreement on the mailing list that the suggested
>      text be included, John and I can consider whether consensus
>      exists on adding it.

The working group should proceed with caution. If we adopt a statement 
such as suggested above, an argument could be made that any form of 
multimaster replication requires an extension of the LDAP models... 
which means such a charter statement might prevent the WG from 
progressing some (most?) of the LDUP documents.

-Mark Smith
  Netscape