Re: Subentries: Need for a control to access?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org>]

At 03:03 PM 8/20/99 -0600, Ed Reed wrote:
>So, I'm proposing that the NOTE be changed to read...
>
>"NOTE:  No special treatment of LDAP Subentries by applications
>or directory services is required.  However, servers which DO provide
>special handling MUST do so in the following way:  

Is there an overriding reason why this must be a MUST?  I'd
much prefer a "SHOULD".

>a) search operations which include a matching criteria 
>"objectclass=lDAPsubEntry" MUST include entries derived from 
>the lDAPsubEntry class in the scope of their operations;  
>
>b) search operations which do not include a matching
>criteria "objectclass=lDAPsubEntry" MUST IGNORE entries
>derived from the lDAPsubEntry class, and exclude them from the scope
>of their operations."
>