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Re: protocol: closing SASL upon Unbind



At 03:17 PM 12/6/2004, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>Note here that as SASL layer also refers to associations
>established through the SASL services, so tear down applies
>regardless of whether a SASL data security layer was installed
>or not.

But as SASL (or TLS) may not be used, I revise my suggestion to:
        cease exchanges at the LDAP message layer,
        tear down the SASL layer (if any),
        tear down the TLS layer (if any), and
        tear down the transport connection.

>We can than say something like:
>        Where the installed data security and transport services
>        provide for graceful closure, the implementation SHOULD
>        attempt graceful closure before resorting to ungraceful
>        closure.
>
>Kurt