Re: please publish draft-mmeredith-rootdse-vendor-info-01.txt

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

> However, every server implementation has "quirks" (also sometimes known as 
> bugs), which may not be known in advance of shipping the server. 

Correct.  My concern is primarily that the draft is proposing also doing 
feature selection with this.  I don't have a problem in general with using 
version names and numbers for bug detection though, so long as the client 
behavior is specified along the lines of

 If the client does not recognize the specific vendor/version as one it has
 its 'bug workaround needed' table, then the client must assume that the 
 server it is talking to is complete and correct. 

Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
Innosoft International, Inc.