Re: Continuation reference to root DN

[d.w.chadwick@salford.ac.uk]

From:           	Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
To:             	Jim Sermersheim <jimse@novell.com>
Copies to:      	ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
Subject:        	Re: Continuation reference to root DN
Date sent:      	Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:35:35 +0100
Priority:       	non-urgent

Hallvard

You obviously have not heard of NSSRs! (non specific subordinate 
references). They were defined in X.500 for precisely the configuration you 
have here.

I dont like your idea of references to the root. These should be reserved for 
superior references (which LDAP still has to define)

If LDAP only defines one reference type, you cannot expect it to 
comprehensively solve all your referencing problems. LDAP will eventually need 
to define more reference types, as per X.500

regards

David

> Jim Sermersheim writes:
> > What would cause a continuation reference to point to the basedn ""?
> 
> I think it would have to be something like this DIT:
>   c=no
>     o=foo     (on server A)
>       ou=bar  (on server A)
>       ou=baz  (on server B, with DN o=baz)
>       ou=quux (on server B, with DN o=quux)
>       ...more ou's in server B...
> 
> Searches below o=foo return some entries from server A and one reference
> to the root of server B.  It could instead return references to each OU
> i B, but that would be slow (many repeated searches) if there are many
> OUs.
> 
> I makes me really sad that can't set up my DIT that way:-)
> 
> -- 
> Hallvard
>