Re: Comments on draft-seilenga-lldap-cancel-00.txt

["Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>]

>>> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> 1/24/01 12:36:57 PM >>>
<snip>
>In my view, this I-D proposes a change to the LDAP protocol
>using one of the provided extension mechanism.  That is, the
>changes are only visible when the extension is being used
>by mutual agreement of both peer.  If an extension mechanism
>was not used, I would argue the version would have to be
>incremented.

This may be a good philosophy, but before it's practiced in I-D's headed for standards track , I think this larger issue should be itself standardized. This kind of thing can be seen by people to extend past the three ammendments you outlined. For example, I remember one of the delete subtree drafts attempting to override protocol behavior (not just wire protocol).

Jim