RE: LDAP Tree Delete Control - draft-armijo-ldap-treedelete-01.tx t

[Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>]

Note that the proposed control only ever deletes leaves. It just makes more
leaves that it can delete as it goes along. As soon as it can't delete
something because it isn't a leaf, it stops.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Armijo (Exchange) 
> [mailto:micharm@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 2:05 PM
> To: 'Bruce Greenblatt'; Michael Armijo (Exchange);
> 'ietf-ldapext@netscape.com'
> Subject: RE: LDAP Tree Delete Control -
> draft-armijo-ldap-treedelete-01.tx t
> 
> 
> The inability to delete objects with subordinate entries 
> using the delete
> operation is exactly what this control is attempting to resolve.  The
> restriction in RFC 2251 reflects that the semantics to handle 
> deletion of an
> object and all its descendants did not exist.  This control 
> follows the
> spirit of existing control extensions to address the 
> limitations of the
> protocol.
> 
> Michael
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Greenblatt [mailto:bgreenblatt@dtasi.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 1:17 PM
> To: Michael Armijo (Exchange); 'ietf-ldapext@netscape.com'
> Subject: Re: LDAP Tree Delete Control -
> draft-armijo-ldap-treedelete-01.txt
> 
> 
> In my draft on subtree operations, I'd considered using controls on
> existing operations, but sentences like:
> 
> "A removeEntry operation is used to remove a leaf entry 
> (either an object
> entry or an alias entry) from the DIT."
> 
> from X.511 indicated to me that this was a very bad idea.  
> Similarly, RFC
> 2251 says this about the Delete operation:
> 
> "Note that the server will not dereference aliases while 
> resolving the name
> of the target entry to be removed, and that only leaf entries 
> (those with
> no subordinate entries) can be deleted with this operation."
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> At 01:38 PM 6/25/99 -0700, Michael Armijo (Exchange) wrote:
> >I have submitted the latest version of the Tree Delete control to the
> >Internet-drafts editor.
> >
> >This update addresses some concerns regarding processing of 
> objects.  
> >
> >
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