Re: Search over referrals (Re: LAST CALL: draft-ietf-ldapext-referral-00.txt)

[Tim Howes <howes@netscape.com>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> Tim,
> what your reply seems to highlight is that we need additional rules
> for the placing of the "Referral" attribute and action when it's placed
> in an entry under various circumstances.
>
> I think we have identified 3:
> - Referral is the only thing the server knows
> - The server knows the whole entry, but no subentries
> - The server knows the whole entry and subentries
> In all cases, the server's behaviour needs to be described, and needs
> to be different in each case, varying with entry search, single-level
> search, whole-subtree search and modify operation.
>
> The whole topic of indexing servers is a fourth (and fifth and....) case,
> which I believe needs additional work.

We'll work on an updated draft with these, and some of David's,
and other changes.


> Does this topic really belong in LDUP?

No.            -- Tim