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Re: LDAP Comments

Tim Howes <tim@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Fri, 07 May 1993 09:57 UTC

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To: pays@faugeres.inria.fr
Cc: rosenqui@crc.sofkin.ca, osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: LDAP Comments
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From: Tim Howes <tim@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>

> From:    pays@faugeres.inria.fr
> To:      pays@faugeres.inria.fr, tim@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu

> but then I would strongly recommend in case the READ and LIST are not
> explicitely exhibited at LDAP cleint level, to add a chapter
> of recommendations to the client designers and developers
> on how to write "interworking" procedures
>   eg.
> 	1. the way to get a single entry by a search base-object
> 		and as far as possible never a search one-level
> 	2. to avoid using Quipu specific attributes, except once
> 	the client has the proof the DSA it is interworking with
> 	is a QUIPU DSA
> 	aso... (to be completed in the light of experience)

Such a guide would be useful, but I believe it should be separate
from the standard itself.  We can publish an LDAP "implementors
guide" as a separate RFC.

> But, it is not related :-), faugeres is a french red wine from
> "Les hauts cantons du Languedoc", which I intend whatever will happen to
> LDAP to have you taste and 'criticize' a few weeks from now,
> when you will be our guest

I look forward to it!                  -- Tim

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