Re: [ldapext] Password Policy OIDs

[Neil Dunbar <neil.dunbar@hp.com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:16 -0600, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> Yeah, I suppose we could do that as well. I'm looking at the
> differences between the 00 version and the 09 version:

> Andrew Sciberras wrote:
> 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?

> > 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.

Are we talking about replacing all OIDs, or just the schema OIDs? It
seems that if we change the ones for the LDAP Request/Response controls
then I can see a lot of implementations falling over (or at least
failing to pass proper response information).

Schema re-OIDing isn't that much of a hassle, for us at least.

Cheers,

Neil


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