Re: Protocol: MUST NOT abandon multiple times

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>At 12:59 PM 12/18/2003, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>>>>>Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> 12/10/03 4:36:13 AM >>>
>>>> 4.11. Abandon Operation 
>>>
>>>> Clients MUST NOT send abandon requests for the same operation 
>>>> multiple times,
>>>
>>> Why not, since the server is required to handle it anyway:
>> 
>> Good question, this is a holdover from RFC 2251. I propose we remove
>> it.
> 
> I suggest changing it to SHOULD NOT instead.  Clients should not
> generate extraneous PDUs.

Nitpick: Lowercase 'should not' seems more proper.  There are plenty of
other ways clients may misbehave which do not have a 'SHOULD NOT'.
Still, I'm fine with 'SHOULD NOT'.


While we are at it, here is another unnecessary "MUST" in section 4.11:

    The MessageID MUST be that of an operation which was requested
    earlier in this LDAP association.

I suggest s/MUST be/is/.  As with the previous "MUST NOT", the server
is required to handle it if the client misbehaves:

    Servers MUST discard abandon requests for message IDs they do not
    recognize, (...)

-- 
Hallvard