Re: [ldapext] Schema for posixGroup successor (RFC 2307 bis)

Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> Thu, 12 February 2015 11:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ldapext] Schema for posixGroup successor (RFC 2307 bis)
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Andrew Findlay wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:17:43PM +0100, Michael Ströder wrote:
>> In draft-howard-rfc2307bis-02 'posixGroup' is declared as AUXILIARY, a change
>> which is forbidden according to Kurt's IANA rules.  And the draft contains a
>> declaration of 'groupOfMembers' which is pretty much the same as
>> 'groupOfEntries'.  We will sort that out...
> 
> Right. That is why I want to separate the groups work from any 2307
> updates as far as possible.

+1

Could you please go ahead pushing draft-findlay-ldap-groupofentries?

> That would be useful. Are we agreed about how it *should* work?
> My understanding is:
> 
> The new class has a set of MUST attributes that is the union of the
> MUST attributes of the superior classes.
> The new class has a set of MAY attributes that is the union of the
> MAY attributes of the superior classes.
> Any attribute that is MUST in one superior and MAY in another will
> become MUST in the new class.

That's exactly how I see it.

Ciao, Michael.