RE: schema-07 comments

["Kathy Dally" <kdally@mitre.org>]

Hi Kurt!

I agree with your wording and will include RFC
1274 as an Informative Reference.

Thanks,
Kathy


-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:54 PM
To: Hallvard B Furuseth
Cc: Kathy Dally; ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: RE: schema-07 comments


I have a few comments to inject here...

At 02:26 PM 6/2/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>> 2.43  x500UniqueIdentifier
>> 
>>>   In X.520 [X.520], this attribute type is
called 
>>>   uniqueIdentifier.  This is a different
attribute type from both the 
>>>   "uid" and "uniqueIdentifier" attribute
types.
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> If you mean an LDAP "uniqueIdentifier"
attribute type, that is not
>> defined in this document.  Where is it defined?
>>
>> kld: It is in RFC 1274.  However, we are trying
to avoid references to
>> that RFC.

s/references/normative references/

An informative reference would be okay.

>If "(uniqueIdentifier is specified in RFC
1274.)", was
>> added to the paragraph would that be ok?  Would
RFC 1274 have to be
>> included as an Informative Reference?
>
>I have no idea.  How about:
>
>  This is a different attribute type from both
the "uid" and
>  the obsolete "uniqueIdentifier" LDAP attribute
types.
>      ^^^^^^^^                    ^^^^

uniqueIdentifier is not obsolete. RFC 1274 is
still a proposed standard.

I suggest adding a statement to the existing text:
        The uniqueIdentifier attribute type is
defined in [RFC1274].
and an informative reference.

>>   The uid attribute type contains computer
system login names
>>   associated with the object.  (Source: RFC
1274,
>>   RFC 2798).  Each name is one value of this
multi-valued attribute.
>
>Hm.  I wouldn't call RFC 2798 (inetOrgPerson) a
source for uid, since
>it's years newer than the use of uid in RFC 2253.

RFC 2798 provided an (informative) LDAP
description for the uid attribute
type, whereas RFC 1274 provided an X.500
description of the attribute type.
This document supercedes both.

>If you count RFCs newer than uid as sources,
isn't [Schema] itself just as good a source?
>As far as I can tell, the source for uid is
buried in RFC 2253 which
>says that LDAP 'uid' = X.500 'userid', combined
with RFC 1274 for
>'userid'.

RFC 2798 specifically provided a previously
missing LDAP
description.  RFC 2798 can be viewed as updating
RFC 1274.