> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:kurt@boolean.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 7:27 AM
> To: Mark Smith
> Cc: Peter Strong; Paul Leach (Exchange); Mark Meredith; ietf-ldapext
> Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-mmeredit-rootdse-vendor-info-00.txt
>
>
> I'm thinking we just need to define an operational attribute for the
> root DSE:
>
> supportedFeature
>
> The values of this attribute are OBJECT IDENTIFIERs identifying the
> supported optional or vendor-defined features which the
> server supports.
>
> ( supportedFeatureOID NAME 'supportedFeature'
> SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.38 USAGE dSAOperation )
>
> The key is that it lists features directly and eliminates the
> need to maintain out of band feature lists for each vendor version.
This sounds fine to me. Having vendor name and version is fine, too, as long as it is _explicitly_ declared that it isn't to be used to discover features.
In addition to the above, shouldn't one look at supported controls, and what classes exist, rather than try to categorize everything as a "feature"?