Re: [ldapext] features-05 comments

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

At 01:43 PM 12/20/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>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.

No reason to defer discussion.  I was just letting you know
that how this specification will like be updated.

>>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:-)

Maybe so.  I likely put that statement just after dealing
with a ridiculously stupid client.


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