Re: Test operations

[Morteza Ansari <morteza@infoblox.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Right. As to that, someone must have a spec for what Netscape and/or Sun 
> actually implemented.

I will try to see if we can get detailed information on the Sun/Netscape 
implementations.

> That would be a good starting point, but we 
> already know that OpenLDAP's ACL mechanism has more access control 
> factors than can be expressed in the LDAPext drafts, so unless we extend 
> the spec we can't offer accurate info to a client. And if we do extend 
> it, then we can't guarantee interoperability any more. So we're left 
> with the choice of being compatible but giving out wrong information, or 
> being accurate but not being compatible. Personally I would choose not 
> to sacrifice accuracy/correctness.

I absolutely agree.


Cheers,
Morteza