Re: When to not deref aliases

[Ludovic Poitou <ludovic.poitou@france.sun.com>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> I think that both RFC 2251 and X.511 are fairly clear
> in regards to update operations.  I think the only
> real issue is whether bind MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD,
> SHOULD NOT, MAY or MAY NOT do aliasing dereferencing.
>
> I would suggest "SHOULD NOT" as it this does not disallow
> an implementation from doing so, but makes it clear that
> dereferencing is not expected behavior.

I think this is the most reasonable approach.
I remember that Sun DS 3.1 had the possibility to deref aliases during a
Bind but this wasn't the default.

Ludovic.

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