Re: LDAP Enhancement Style Guide

[Bruce Greenblatt <bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com>]

At 10:18 PM 3/31/2001 -0800, Rob Weltman wrote:

>   I agree in principle, but in practice I think it varies. How is a 
> client to know if the server understands the additional field? A client 
> can check if a server supports a particular control by OID by reading the 
> root DSE, but there is no way to check for a version of a control. In 
> some cases it's OK; for example the field might indicate that the client 
> wants the server to return some additional information besides the 
> response implied by the "base" control fields, it can check the response 
> to see if the additional info is there, and it doesn't matter much if 
> it's not there. But in other cases it would not be acceptable - e.g. the 
> operation is useless or worse to the client if the server doesn't 
> understand the new field, or the client can't tell from the response if 
> the server took the additional field into account or not.

You make good points.  I still think that it should be a SHOULD.  I will 
add your arguments to the next revision.


> Rob

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