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RE: draft-mmeredith-rootdse-vendor-info-02.txt
At 09:13 AM 2/18/00 -0500, Peter Strong wrote:
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>> To be blunt, I don't believe that there is much use for this draft.
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>For those of us who attempt to build applications that work with
>multiple directory implementations, this information is very useful.
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The information may be useful. I never said that it wasn't. I said that
it's already available someplace else. Get it from there, since that is
already a standards track RFC. I don't see much point in duplicating this
information. In my opinion, a good internet directory client will get
information from a variety of internet servers: DNS, LDAP, SNMP, and others.
>> 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)
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>The products we build are LDAP clients, not SNMP clients.
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>This information should be available via LDAP.
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>> Bruce
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>> 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
>pestrong@nortelnetworks.com <mailto:pestrong@nortelnetworks.com>
>(613) 831-6615
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Bruce Greenblatt, Ph. D.
Directory Tools and Application Services, Inc.
http://www.directory-applications.com