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Re: alias entries in LDAP



Kurt

I dont know what problem you have in retaining aliases. I think it would
be retrograde to remove them, as support for them is fully worked out in
the LDAP model and the protocol. The only tricky thing is what to do in
the presence of access controls, but given that LDAP does not have an
access control model, this should not cause there to be a problem with
aliases.


David


"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> As the use of alias entries to provide alias names is not
> well defined in LDAP, I suggest the following text be
> added to [Models]:
> 
> 2.2.3. Alias Names
> 
>   An alias, or alias name, is "an name for an object, provided by
>   the use of alias entries" [X.501].  This technical specification
>   does not detail the use alias entries to provide aliases.  This
>   may be detailed in future documents.
> 
> and the alias schema be removed from the technical specification.
> 
> Note that like text is already provided for subentries.
> 
> Kurt

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