"search scope" for non-search operations (was: Continuation References vs. Referrals)

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

Jim Sermersheim writes:
>>>>Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> 12/7/04 12:09:18 PM

>>BTW, "between the root and a leaf entry" is another text in Referrals
>>which does not fit non-Search operations, but I don't have a good
>>suggestion to fix it - and I don't expect it to be misunderstood
> either.
>
> "within the search scope"? maybe better is "for a Search operation".

No, the counter should also be used when a non-search gets a referal to
a server which returns another referral and so on.  Or with extensions
like Delete Subtree.

BTW, just for reference: The text in question is this sentence from
4.1.10 Referral:

   Some
   implementations use a counter that is incremented each time referral
   handling occurs for an operation, and these kinds of implementations
   MUST be able to handle at least ten nested referrals between the root
   and a leaf entry.

-- 
Hallvard