Re: Lifetime of associations

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

Michael Ströder writes:
>Ramsay, Ron wrote:
>>
>> An exchange can only, generally, encompass a single request and its
>> associated responses. It may be extended during "association"
>> establishment to included negotiation of security layers, etc.
> 
> I strongly agree.

'Exchange' has plenty of meanings, e.g. 'telephone exchange'.
[Protocol] section 2 defines this:

   The term "LDAP exchange" refers to application layer where LDAP PDUs 
   are exchanged between protocol peers. 

We didn't find a good term when we discussed this - e.g., I thought
'LDAP stream' was a fine and obvious term, while someone else thought
that cleary sounded like the stream of raw octets - i.e. before decoding
TLS and SASL layers.  So we junked 'stream' for either meaning.  Maybe
'LDAP *data* stream' or 'LDAP channel' or something would be better, I
don't know.

-- 
Hallvard