Re: what's optional in LDAP V3...

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

At 10:08 AM 10/9/00 -0700, sanjay jain wrote:
>> 3.2.2:
>> 3.3:
>> The interface is not violated if subtyping is not supported.
>
>    IMO, its very hard to interpret based on above info that subtyping is
>    optional in LDAP V3.

Jim pointed out that "RFC 2256, Section 5.42" makes an explicit
statement in regard to subtyping support being elective.

>    Looks like if an LDAP client sends a search request with
>    filter (name=xyz) and gets back objects which satisfy exactly
>    this filter then it is not easy for the client to know whether the
>    server does not support subtypes or there are no objects (in same
>    scope etc..) which satisfy (cn=xyz) or (sn=xyz) types of filters.

Feature discovery through trial and error is always problematic.
A better mechanism, such as one of those previously proposed on
this list, should be formalized.