RE: When to not deref aliases

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 09:02 AM 1/16/01 -0700, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>I don't think it's it's implied across the board.
>It's explicit for some operations.

Which is why I believe dereferencing is disallowed otherwise...

However, I agree that both interpretations are reasonable and
we need to got down to one interpretation.

When choosing one over the other, besides looking at the
technical merits of each, we should consider which interpretations
have been implemented and demonstrated interoperability.

In this case, I believe that aliases should not be dereferenced
in absence of a operation field (or control) specify the behavior
is a reasonable interpretation, a sound technical approach, is
widely implemented, and has demonstrated interoperability.

Kurt