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RE: Critical controls

To: "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>
Subject: RE: Critical controls
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:37:45 -0800
Cc: Mark Smith <mcs@netscape.com>, Jim Sermersheim <JIMSE@novell.com>, ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <6B33416BC4BBD411BCA6009027D0D18C23FAB6@aspams01.ca.com>

At 11:56 AM 11/23/00 +1100, Ramsay, Ron wrote:
>What would be the harm in processing the abandon. Abandon WAS requested.

The harm is in processing an operation which has no defined semantics.

Per my reading of RFC 2251, both abandon/unbind requests with
unsupported and/or inappropriate critical controls should be
ignored.

My suggestion is to make an except for unbind.  If there
is objection to such a change, I withdraw it.

Kurt

References:
- RE: Critical controls
  - From: "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>

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