Re: [ldapext] draft-masarati-ldap-deref as ldapext work item?

[Simo Sorce <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 16:04 +0000, Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Simo Sorce wrote:
> >> This is very true and there are products that can cope, there are also
> >> mechanism to more efficiently (at least latency wise) if you use
> >> controls like: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masarati-ldap-deref-00
> >>
> >> Both OpenLDAP and 389ds (for FreeIPA) implement this control and we use
> >> it in various clients.
> >
> > I also consider this control to be very useful and therefore I've added support
> > for it in python-ldap a couple of weeks ago.  And since there are already two
> > independent server implementations it should be easy to bring this I-D to a
> > ldapext RFC.
> >
> > Not sure whether the original authors are still motivated to work on it.
> 
> I proposed this control to satisfy a need in supporting SAMBA / 
> AD-compatibility in OpenLDAP. Symas is still actively engaged in implementing 
> ActiveDirectory functionality in OpenLDAP, so yes, we are still committed to 
> this particular item.

At this point we are dependent on this control in FreeIPA (as well as
our Samba work) so I will gladly volunteer to work on it if needed.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York