Re: Another problem with abandon

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 10:16 PM 6/19/2003, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>There is no response defined in the Abandon operation. Upon reciept of
>an AbandonRequest, the server MAY abandon the operation identified by
>the MessageID. Operation responses are not sent for successfully
>abandoned operations, thus a client SHOULD NOT use the Abandon operation
>when it needs an indication of whether the operation was abandoned. For
>example, if a client performs an update operation (Add, Modify, or
>ModifyDN), and it needs to know whether the directory has changed due to
>the operation, it should not use the Abandon operation to cancel the
>update operation. Clients can ensure that an operation has been
>successfully abandoned by performing a subsequent bind operation, and
>this method only works when the underlying transport guaranties ordering
>of messages. 

I suggest dropping the last sentence as it implies the client can
get an indication of success of the abandon operation by issuing
a subsequent bind operation.

Also, change the "MAY" to a "may".  MAY implies that a server
can elect to implement the abandon operation while may
implies the server which implements the abandon operation can
choose when to honor the request.

Likely, the "SHOULD NOT use" does not appear to be an implementation
imperative and likely should be a "should not".

And, you left "Delete" out of list of update operations.

Kurt