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Re: LDAP Observation

It is entirely possible that the failure of the interoperability tests had more to do with product marketing approach than with the specification.  That is, the implementation deliberately used proprietary elements which were intended to encourage single vendor solutions. This in spite of the fact that the existence of the standard implies demand for multi-vendor solutions.

	JimC



At 1:06 PM +0200 10/8/98, Leif Johansson wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>> To cite a test of a protocol that did not work too well between
>> companies a year or so ago as the basis that the system engineering is
>> wrong is not very useful.
>
>Why? If the standard in question has been around for a long while
>and products implementing that standard are unable to pass inter-
>operability tests then surely this has to say _something_ about the 
>system engineering...
>
>
>	Cheers,
>
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