Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-dupent-00.txt

[dboreham@netscape.com (David Boreham)]

Leif Johansson wrote:
> 
> > A client submits a search with server-side sorting
> > along the lines of "give me a sorted list of all the
> > people in the company, sorted by surname".
> > ......
> 
> For this to work the server has to know enough to "apply"
> the sorting control after the dupent control, right?. If so,
> where in the ldap protocol or in the directory information
> model is this ordering of controls specified?

I don't understand the need for the strict ordering
of the controls.