Re: ActiveDirectory schema

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 19:06 13.06.99 -0700, Erik Skovgaard wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Since you are getting into specifics, note that inetOrgPerson is *not* on
> an IETF standards track.  In fact, the author has indicated an
> unwillingness to fix problems (e.g. proprietary OIDs).  In other words, it
> is a document describing a *proprietary* approach.
>
> An informational RFC doth not a standard make.

The LDAP standard itself is chock-full of proprietary OIDs.
We shouldn't add new ones unnecessarily, but if they're already
commonly used, changing them has very low benefit, and little precedent
in LDAP work (unlike, for instance, SNMP work).

                         Harald A

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