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Re: Status of LDIF and Changelog?

Hi Gordon,

Concerning both LDIF documents, I think that Erik´s extensions are very 
important in a multiple service provider environment where the aspect
ownership of attribute types or even values is crucial for
synchronization purposes.
But I would agree with you to progress both documents separately. What
about
1. Move forward your document as a proposed standard LDIF V1
2. Progress Erik´s document as LDIF V2 , which is a superset of
LDAP V1 and may be still needs to be discussed ?

How does this plan sound? Are there other possibilities to progress
both documents?

Patrick

Gordon Good wrote:
> 
> The timing of this thread is good!
> 
> The plan I have, as document author, is to move the current LDIF draft forward
> as a proposed standard. I apologize for not getting this done sooner, but other
> things have gotten in the way. Here are some things to think about:
> 
> - Is proposed standard the way to go?  I think so. Having LDIF on standards
> track doesn't preclude other formats (like an XML DTD for directory entries)
> coming into existence. Instead, it's an acknoweledgement that many
> implementations already support LDIF, and will help ensure interoperability
> among implementations that choose to support LDIF.
> 
> - What about the LDIF extensions draft
> (http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-andersen-isss-ws-dir-ldifext-00.txt)
> that Erik Andersen has written? Erik's draft addresses three main issues: it
> allows "ownership" of attribute values to be described in an LDIF file (to
> allow merging of data from multiple organizations), it allows for mapping
> between attribute names, and is more compact. The first two features enable
> LDIF to be used to perform certain metadirectory operations. The last is a
> feature which is orthogonal to the other features. In my opinion, these are
> interesting and potentially valuable features, but I would not want to see them
> become part of the basic LDIF specification. Doing so would unnecessarily
> burden implementors who do not require these features.
> 
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