Re: WG Charter Proposal v2

At 11:32 AM 4/1/2003, Mark C Smith wrote:
>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.

Yes, the current documents being produced by the WG assume
this WG is chartered to revise the LDAP "core" technical
specification (specifically, LDUP changes the LDAP
service model) and that's obviously problematic.

However, if the WG intents to continue under that assumption
that it can revise as necessary the LDAP "core" technical
specification, then it should say so in its charter.

Or say nothing about this in the charter.  That I don't recommend.

Kurt