RE: inetOrgPerson

["Salter, Thomas A" <Thomas.Salter@unisys.com>]

see http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/asid-charter.html

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mcs@netscape.com [mailto:mcs@netscape.com]
 > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 11:22 AM
 > To: Erik Skovgaard
 > Cc: ietf-asid@umich.edu; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
 > Subject: Re: inetOrgPerson
 > 
 > 
 > Erik Skovgaard wrote:
 > > 
 > > Mark,
 > > 
 > > I see that the inetOrgPerson draft document is now listed 
 > as a work item
 > > from this group.  I thought this was your own initiative?
 > 
 > It is.  Where did you see it listed as a work item of the 
 > ASID group?  I
 > did notice that the Internet Draft announcement was copied 
 > to the ASID
 > list, but that is a mistake I think.  The first draft of 
 > inetOrgPerson
 > was published two years ago under ASID but that was corrected with
 > subsequent drafts.
 > 
 > I just issued a last call on this document on the LDAPEXT list (with
 > plans to ask that it be published as an Informational RFC in 
 > a couple of
 > weeks time), so I copied LDAPEXT on this reply.  Apologies for the
 > duplicate copies -- let's move the discussion to LDAPEXT as I suspect
 > most everyone on ASID is also on LDAPEXT.
 > 
 > > ...
 > > I won't start an agument over which attributes should or 
 > should not be in
 > > the definition (I know btter than that :-), but I have a 
 > comment to the
 > > document:
 > > 
 > > Object Identifiers in an RFC that is for general use (as 
 > opposed to one
 > > that describe a proprietary product or a practice of a 
 > specific vendor)
 > > should *not* use OIDs that are allocated to a particular 
 > vendor, IMHO.  I
 > > would prefer that we assign OIDs from the IANA pool.
 > 
 > This is a somewhat religious debate that I have heard before.  In my
 > opinion, an OID is an OID is an OID regardless of who 
 > assigns it.  Why
 > does it matter to you where the OIDs come from?  Are you 
 > concerned that
 > a vendor like Netscape will change the OIDs or use them for 
 > some other
 > purpose?  To some extent the inetOrgPerson does in fact describe
 > practice that was started by Netscape, but it is fairly widely used
 > now.  Changing OIDs will clearly be disruptive to existing 
 > deployments
 > and products.
 > 
 > 
 > > ...
 > > Note also that the 'carLicense' is somewhat US-centric.  
 > In many parts of
 > > the world people use mopeds or bicycles as the main mode 
 > of transportation.
 > >  Many of these will have a license plate too.  How about calling it
 > > 'transportationLicense'?
 > 
 > I agree the name could be better.  But it is only an attribute type
 > name, and changing it would certainly break the existing 
 > deployments and
 > products that use it.  We would need to add another 
 > attribute type, and
 > that doesn't really make sense to me at this point in time.
 > 
 > Thanks for your comments so far.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Mark Smith
 > Directory Architect / Netscape Communications Corp.
 > My words are my own, not my employer's.  Got LDAP?
 >