Re: draft-zeilenga-ldup-harmful-00.txt

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>
>> The X.500/LDAP information and service models does not support
>> multi-master replication and cannot be altered to support multi-master
>> replication without causing great harm.
> 
> 
> CI assume you are disagreeing with the latter portion of sentence
> as clearly the X.500/LDAP information and service models do not
> support multi-master replication.

Yes, although I would say that the X.500/LDAP information and service 
models to have have explicit support for MMR.


> John suggests changing the service model.  I argue that this will
> cause great harm.  It certainly will break any application which
> relies on this aspect of the LDAP/X.500 service model.

I believe it is inevitable that there will be some pain associated with 
certain kinds of LDAP extensions (MMR, transactional support, etc.) But 
I think the pain is worth bearing in some cases in order to progress the 
state of the art.

-Mark