Re: objectclass of a subschemasubentry

[Mark Wahl <M.Wahl@INNOSOFT.COM>]

At the time the LDAPv3 RFCs were completed, there was concern by a number 
of implementors that they did not want to have the subentry object class
included in RFC 2251/2252.  Therefore, we only included the subschema 
object class.  The definition of the subentry class could be found in 
X.501. Note that the use of the subentry class would typically be based on
an administrative model of a subentry being limited to the a single 
administrative area.   Other models do not have that limitation, and allow
a single subentry to cover multiple administrative areas.  Since 2251/2252 
only concerns itself with subschema _retrieval_, then this was not as big a 
problem as the upcoming draft on subschema advanced services (including 
maintenance) where the client would need to determine what model the server 
supported to best identify where it could create new subschema entries or 
subschema subentries. 

Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
Innosoft International, Inc.