input on draft-ieft-svrloc-ldap-scheme-01.txt

[Ed Reed <ED_REED@novell.com>]

There are several other attributes which I think it would be very useful
to have SLP expose about LDAP servers...all generally available from the
LDAP root DSE entries...to assist clients or directories themselves in
finding other directories whose address are not known.

1) naming contexts - The naming contexts held by a directory server can
be very valuable.  Even when an LDAP URL, which contains a DNS name of
the server where the ldap service is located, there may very well be
times when the client, or another directory, needs to find any server
which holds a particular naming context.

2) vendor/version/patch level - as a way to support clients which are
backwardly compatible, but which have preference for later versions of
servers which are more likely to support their specific requirements
(ie, LDAPv2 vs LDAPv3, or Microsoft's LDAP server, or Netscape's, etc.)

Thanks,
Ed