Re: Schema question

[Brandon McCombs <bmccombs@ma.rr.com>]

Zane C.Bowers wrote:
> When creating one and one has not gotten a OID yet, is the any problem
> one can run into giving it something random before one can be acquired
> if it is for internal use only and is to be changed as soon as one is
> acquired?
>   
You don't need an OID to install a schema. You don't even need an OID to 
create a schema. But you don't really create your own schema anyway; you 
just extend the default one.  You should have your own OID branch if you 
intend to extend the schema so you don't run into conflicts that *may* 
occur when you acquire an add-on that may apply schema extensions that 
use the same OID as you have used.  You could in theory use a 0.0.0.0 
(that's what I've done for testing in the past) OID for one attribute 
but after that you don't really have a way of making sure you won't have 
future conflicts unless you officially reserve your own OID subtree. If 
you don't plan on buying any products that could extend the openLDAP 
schema then in theory you can use any OID that hasn't already been used 
but can you really plan that far ahead?