RE: draft-mmeredith-rootdse-vendor-info-02.txt

[Peter Strong <pestrong@nortelnetworks.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Greenblatt [mailto:bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 1:05 AM
> To: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Cc: mark_meredith@novell.com
> Subject: Re: draft-mmeredith-rootdse-vendor-info-02.txt
>
>
> To be blunt, I don't believe that there is much use for this draft.

For those of us who attempt to build applications that work with
multiple directory implementations, this information is very useful.

> The information that it proposes to add to the Root DSE is already
> published is
> already available from SNMP if the LDAP server conforms to RFC 2248.  The
> applVersion field of the MIB is useful here.  I think that this draft
> should just point to RFC 2248 (and perhaps 2605) and explain where the
> vendor information should be placed.  These are already standards track
> documents, and have places to put the information that this draft defines.
> (Just my $0.02 worth)

The products we build are LDAP clients, not SNMP clients.

This information should be available via LDAP.

>
>  Bruce
> ==============================================
> Bruce Greenblatt, Ph. D.
> Directory Tools and Application Services, Inc.
> http://www.directory-applications.com
>

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Peter Strong
Software Architect
Nortel Networks - Optivity Policy Services (OPS) and NetID
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