RE: RE: PCELS position

Bob,

Pardon my confusion. From my experience, re-using attributes within multiple
objectclasses is a valid strategy provided that the meaning of the attribute
is maintained, and is in fact encouraged by existing RFC's (for example:
x500UniqueIdentifier is identified in RFC 2256, and re-used in RFC 2798
(inetOrgPerson)).

Regards,
d.



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Moore [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:40 PM
To: David McTavish
Cc: 'Wijnen, Bert (Bert)'; David McTavish; 'Joel M. Halpern'; John
Strassner; 'Pana, Mircea'; '[email protected]'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Policy] RE: PCELS position


David,

Yes, that's exactly what I was saying.  What I don't understand is this: if
LDAP attributes are globally unique, what's the problem with reusing them
in multiple classes (with the same syntax and semantics, of course)?  This
was a desirable thing in CMIP, but John is suggesting that it's to be
avoided in LDAP.

Regards,
Bob

Bob Moore
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IBM Software Group
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