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Re: (c.harding 30393) Re: Tw bobs worth on TOP, LDAP standards process and subschemasub entry attribute usage in rootDSE
Hi -
The Open Group will be working out a conformance program for LDAP.
We currently operate several conformance programs under the name of the
Open Brand. This enables a buyer to require conformance to a profile of
standards. A supplier can not claim conformance unless he has passed a
set of tests AND has made a commitement to maintain his products in
conformance with the standards. There is a legal remedy (under trademark
law) against a vendor that makes a false claim.
The Open Brand does not replace the contract between buyer and vendor
but it makes it much easier to draw up a contract and make it stick.
It has been used in procurements totalling nearly $25bn in value,
mostly for UNIX systems.
The LDAP conformance program will be different from the UNIX one in
many respects. The essential requirement is for interoperability
rather than for conformance to an API. We will be working out the
details of this over the next few months, starting at the Open Group
meeting next week in Montreal.
At 05:20 PM 11/07/99 -0500, Mark Wahl wrote:
>
>My message tried to state that there was nothing the _IETF_ did to
>enforce vendor behavior.
>
>In the IETF there is no contractual arrangement between an implementor
>and a working group. However, in large deployments there may be a
>contractual arrangement between an implementor and a deployer of
>that technology. This contractual arrangement may reference Internet
>standards-track RFCs as criteria for a correct implementation, and the
>deployer may choose to use conformance or interoperability test results
>as the basis for evaluating this criteria. There are standard business
>practices for an implementor and deployer to work out what to do if this
>criteria is not met.
>
>Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
>Innosoft International, Inc.
>
>
>
Regards,
Chris
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