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Re: Continuation reference to root DN

To: Jim Sermersheim <jimse@novell.com>
Subject: Re: Continuation reference to root DN
From: Mark Wahl <Mark.Wahl@sun.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:48:09 -0600
Cc: mcs@netscape.com, Kurt@OpenLDAP.org, h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no, ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
References: <sddba7b8.091@prv-mail20.provo.novell.com>

Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> 
> Good point. 4.1.10 is broken when an alias points to the empty DN. One could
> easily loop on this problem.

The requirements for continuation references were derived from those of 
X.500 which tended to point 'across' or 'down'.  It would seem to me that 
a referral to the root DSE for an operation that is not a baseObject search 
or Modify on the root DSE would be a 'new feature'.  I don't know an 
application of this feature that would warrant such a change being required
to improve interoperability.  Do you know of such application needs?  If 
so, let's discuss how it uses such referrals to other servers' root DSEs 
before we discuss making a change to LDAP.  If there aren't, then it might
be easier to just forbid such references from being created.

Mark Wahl
Sun Microsystems Inc.

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