Re: Protocol: Rolling in recent updates

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

At 11:03 AM 12/16/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>> draft-zeilenga-ldap-user-schema-mr - (mostly) yes
>>   This document includes the "missing" from the
>>   LDAP TS.  Many of them should find there way
>>   into [Syntaxes].  Work here is minimal.
>
>Work on implementation is not minimal.

I meant LDAP work, not implementor work.  Assuming we
don't change the elective status of the features we
roll in, the impact to implementors is the same:
        Those who choose to implement do.
        Those who choose to implement don't.

>[Syntaxes] 4.1 (General Considerations) says:
>
>   Servers SHOULD implement all the matching rules in Section 4.2.
>
>SHOULD they implement the new matching rules too?

I'd like to see most be SHOULD implement, but think it
reasonable that some being MAY implement.  I'd even be
fine with all being SHOULD or MAY.  I recommend:

  SHOULD     booleanMatch
  SHOULD     caseExactMatch
  SHOULD     caseExactOrderingMatch
  SHOULD     caseExactSubstringsMatch
  SHOULD     caseIgnoreListSubstringsMatch
  SHOULD     directoryStringFirstComponentMatch
  SHOULD     integerOrderingMatch
  MAY        keywordMatch
  SHOULD     numericStringOrderingMatch
  SHOULD     octetStringOrderingMatch 
  MAY        storedPrefixMatch
  MAY        wordMatch

Kurt