Re: Lifetime of associations

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

At 08:35 AM 9/27/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>The term "association" seems to be used in two ways:
>(a) Bind destroys one association and replaces it with a new one.
>(b) A connection has one enduring association which Bind modifies.

Yes, that seems to be so.  Seems we should either:
        1) use (a) or (b) (but not both)
        2) use different terms for (a) and (b), e.g.,
           session v association?

Off hand, I think I prefer 1) with meaning (b) slightly
over 2), and these greatly over 1) with meaning (a).

Kurt