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Re: RFC 2255bis
Jim wrote
> The inclusion of all search constraints isn't only for referrals and
> search continuations. It would be nice to allow a client to construct
> an LDAP URL and to be able to convey various constraints.
>
This in my opinion is where LDAP has got it wrong. It is generally a
bad idea to use the same data construct for two different purposes.
A referral does not serve the same purpose as a LDAP URL in
general, and to use the same data construct for both is a bad idea.
It leads to this messing up of features that Jim is proposing. (I tried
to get this idea over in my old ID for knowledge references if I
remember correctly <draft-ietf-ldapext-referral-01.txt> from March
1998)
David
> It also is needed for future applications of the LDAP URL. Today, the
> iPlanet server allows one to construct a dynamic group using an LDAP
> URL. Because of today's limitations, alias dereferencing and size/time
> limits cannot be specified. In the future, there may be other types of
> attributes that wish to hold an LDAP URL for various reasons and it is
> limiting to not allow a full search operation to be expressed.
>
> I believe the additional constraints can be added to the end of the
> URL as optional elements. This would not inherently add to the
> complexity of the LDAP URLs that people are used to seeing. It simply
> provides more consistency.
>
> The alternative is to define a set of LDAP URL extensions that are
> used to specify the additional constraints. I'm willing to write that
> draft if it comes to that.
>
> Jim
>
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