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Re: [ldapext] features-05 comments
Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
> I hope that this TS will be incorporated into the revised LDAP
> TS being produced by the LDAPBIS WG. If they do so, any known
> issues should be addressed during that work. Otherwise,
> I will address them in some future update of RFC 3674.
If you mean further discussion should wait, this will be my last
message until then.
>At 12:07 PM 12/20/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>> 2. Discovery of supported features
>>
>>> A client may examine the values of this attribute to
>>> determine if a particular feature is supported by the server. A
>>> client MUST ignore values it doesn't recognize as they refer to
>>> elective features it doesn't implement.
>>
>>What's the point of the last sentence? What else could the client do
>>with a feature it doesn't know about?
>
> Not ignore the unrecognized feature. That is, fail to continue
> processing due to presence of a unrecognized value in
> 'supportedFeatures'.
Sounds like you are saying 'the client may instead be ridiculously
stupid'. I don't think a MUST is needed to prevent that, or even that
it's any of our business if the client does this:-)
--
Hallvard
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