Re: [ldapext] DBIS - new IETF drafts

[Howard Chu <[e-mail]>]

Mark R Bannister wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2014 17:40, Howard Chu wrote:
>> Mark R Bannister wrote:
>>> In August this year, I submitted some new IETF drafts with the intent
>>> that they would replace NIS and RFC2307.  It introduces Directory Based
>>> Information Services (DBIS).
>>> <snip>
>> Yes, this is the correct list.
>
> First, Howard let me apologise up-front for not approaching you about
> this sooner.  I appreciate, as the editor of RFC2307bis-02 that it must
> come as quite a shock to you to see a new set of Internet Drafts
> released that could be seen as a direct challenge to your work, and I
> quite understand your defensive posture.  However, I launched this
> initiative as a direct result of working with large corporations (mainly
> banks) who were using RFC2307 extensively across big Linux and Solaris
> installations (between 10,000 to 40,000 hosts) and facing numerous
> pain-points which needed to be addressed.  It was purely technically
> motivated, and I did not mean to cause any offence.  I am completely
> open to ideas and suggestions to further improve DBIS, and I think if
> you dig deep into these drafts and ask me detailed questions you'll
> realise that a lot of time and thought has gone into every decision I
> have made thus far, including preserving whatever makes sense to
> preserve from the RFC2307 heritage.

Nothing defensive here at all. I have nothing personally invested in one spec 
or another. As I stated before, it's a mistake to embed Solaris-specific 
semantics into a supposedly universal spec. My response is purely technical, 
since technical details are my only concern.

>> I must say I'm alarmed at seeing a new proposal that is primarily
>> based on NIS-compatible attribute values. This is exactly the same
>> fundamental problem in the original RFC2307 which made it less than
>> useful for non-Solaris-based OSs like AIX and HPUX. This is the same
>> flaw that I attempted to correct in my updated draft
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-howard-rfc2307bis-02
>
> Please would you give me some specific examples of what you believe is
> less than useful for AIX and HP-UX, and how you corrected these in
> RFC2307bis-02.  Forgive me but I am coming from a Linux and Solaris
> perspective.

This is all pretty old ground. 
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200310/msg00138.html

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