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Re: [ldapext] DBIS - new IETF drafts

Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com> Fri, 10 January 2014 00:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ldapext] DBIS - new IETF drafts
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I was reluctant to join this conversation as I haven't had a chance to look at the drafts, but: to anyone wanting to improve on RFC2307 (or indeed, anything), I would say go for it.

To get traction IMO, it needs to (a) be published in a finished state (unlike 2307bis), and (b) have a reference implementation that supports every platform. Enterprises that are still welded to NIS and need all the corner cases (netgroups, case sensitivity, etc) are also likely to still be using AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 8, etc. (Of course there is always inertia owing to the installed base, but were one to have that attitude about everything, there would be no progress. In the end the market will decide.)

-- Luke

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