Status of LDAP

Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr> Mon, 26 July 1993 14:16 UTC

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To: tim@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Status of LDAP
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 16:11:14 +0200
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From: Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr>

I am preparing a course on name services (X.500 and friends) and am currently
writing a section on LDAP. I have a couple of questions:

1) I am currently using the internet draft:
		draft-ietf-osids-lightdirect-03.txt
This draft does not carry the regular "date" and "expires" indications in the
header -- but page footings mention "Expires 6/15/93". Where is the valid
version?

2) Various minor bugs in the draft:

	Page 3: Comma missing after:
		unbindRequest       UnbindRequest

	Page 3: IA5String ::= OCTET STRING
	should be LDAPString or something similar, NOT "IA5String" which is an
	ASN1 reserved key word.


3) We beated at length the Search vs Read vs List issue. How come that LDAP
still includes a "Compare" operation? I could have thought that "Search,
scope=baseobject, filter=assertion" would do the trick...

4) Mandating the definite form of ASN.1/BER is **NOT** a simplification. Is
this just a a leftover from SNMP?

5) How many implementations of LDAP do we count today?

Christian Huitema

Status of LDAP Christian Huitema
Re: Status of LDAP Tim Howes