Re: [ldapext] Password Policy OIDs

[Andrew Sciberras <andrew.sciberras@eB2Bcom.com>]

G'Day Jim,

I think that this is a good idea, however your email suggests that 
changing the OID's will disambiguate the semantics by which a password 
policy is being enforced. Do you plan to change the short name 
descriptors of the attributes as well?


Andrew Sciberras


Jim Sermersheim wrote:

> This does bring up another point I wanted to discuss though...
>  
> This draft was written way back when it was popular to assign OIDs in
> I-D's. A practice that has lost favor partly due to implementations
> using those OIDs and experiencing problems as semantics changed but OIDs
> didn't.
>  
> I'd like to move this I-D forward, and I don't want to be tied to any
> semantics defined in previous versions. I propose that we replace the
> existing OIDs with requests for IANA OIDs. This way, existing
> implementations won't appear to be invalid according to the current and
> future revisions, and I won't have to worry so much about breaking
> existing implementations.
>  
> What do other's think?
>  
> Jim

_______________________________________________
Ldapext mailing list
Ldapext@ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ldapext