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RE: [Policy] RE: PCELS position

David McTavish <dmctavish@sandvine.com> Fri, 26 September 2003 22:26 UTC

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From: David McTavish <dmctavish@sandvine.com>
To: 'Robert Moore' <remoore@us.ibm.com>, David McTavish <dmctavish@sandvine.com>
Cc: "'Wijnen, Bert (Bert)'" <bwijnen@lucent.com>, David McTavish <dmctavish@sandvine.com>, "'Joel M. Halpern'" <joel@stevecrocker.com>, John Strassner <John.Strassner@intelliden.com>, "'Pana, Mircea'" <mpana@metasolv.com>, "'policy@ietf.org'" <policy@ietf.org>, policy-admin@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Policy] RE: PCELS position
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:58:46 -0400
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Bob,

Pardon my confusion. From my experience, re-using attributes within multiple
objectclasses is a valid strategy provided that the meaning of the attribute
is maintained, and is in fact encouraged by existing RFC's (for example:
x500UniqueIdentifier is identified in RFC 2256, and re-used in RFC 2798
(inetOrgPerson)).

Regards,
d.



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From: Robert Moore [mailto:remoore@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:40 PM
To: David McTavish
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Strassner; 'Pana, Mircea'; 'policy@ietf.org'; policy-admin@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Policy] RE: PCELS position


David,

Yes, that's exactly what I was saying.  What I don't understand is this: if
LDAP attributes are globally unique, what's the problem with reusing them
in multiple classes (with the same syntax and semantics, of course)?  This
was a desirable thing in CMIP, but John is suggesting that it's to be
avoided in LDAP.

Regards,
Bob

Bob Moore
WebSphere Advanced Design and Technology
WebSphere Platform System House
IBM Software Group
+1-919-254-4436
remoore@us.ibm.com


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