Re: [ldapext] DBIS - new IETF drafts

[Mark R Bannister <[e-mail]>]

On 06/01/2014 21:19, Howard Chu wrote:
>
>>> 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
>

Ok, so rather than being "alarmed" you could have just said, "please 
would you consider seconds instead of days for some of the shadow 
attributes".  This is a small request, and very easy to put into DBIS, 
and by no means a "fundamental problem".  Let's put comments into their 
right perspective.

Do you have any more alarming problems that can be turned into simple 
requests?

Thanks :-)

p.s. I'm being playful, no rudeness intended.