Re: control combination was: Re: protocol-22 comments)

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

I wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>>   Controls are not to be combined (with other controls
>>   of same or different types) unless the semantics of the
>>   combination have been defined.  (...)
> 
> Sounds too strict to me.  (...)
> 
> Finally, one detail: If we stick to RFC controls, each control author
> will need to check all previous RFC controls.  It might be easy to miss
> one, and make a control combination with an obvious semantics invalid.

Also, this requirement breaks requests that combine the ManageDsaIT
control (rfc3296) with previously defined controls (e.g. paged results -
rfc2696), since rfc3296 does not say how to combine ManageDsaIT with
other controls.

-- 
Hallvard