RE: When to not deref aliases

["Volpers, Helmut" <helmut.volpers@icn.siemens.de>]

I agree totally with Kurt.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2001 19:00
> To: Jim Sermersheim
> Cc: ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org; Thomas.Salter@unisys.com
> Subject: RE: When to not deref aliases
> 
> 
> 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 X.500 is here a little bit stronger it explicitly
disallow the dereferencing in a Simple Bind. 
Dereferencing should not be the expected behavior.

Helmut
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