RE: [ldapext] Dynamic group draft

["Neal-Joslin, Robert (HP-UX Lab R&D)" <bob.joslin@hp.com>]

Hi Howard,

Could you explain your OpenLDAP implementaon comments a bit further?  I
too would be conderned about proposing new "dynamic group" schema
elements.  I'm wondering if an "implememtation" issue in OpenLDAP is
enough reason to prose new schema elements.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@highlandsun.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:49 PM
> To: Ldapext; Jim Sermersheim
> Subject: Re: [ldapext] Dynamic group draft
> 
> Howard Chu wrote:
> > While I don't think there was ever a formal spec published, 
> a lot of 
> > vendors already use the memberURL attribute that Netscape 
> defined for 
> > their default dynamic group implementation. Why did you feel it was 
> > necessary to define a new "memberQueryURL" attribute that is 
> > essentially identical in meaning to memberURL?
> >
> Actually looking over our implementation in OpenLDAP, I guess that 
> defining a new attribute is probably a good move. But it 
> should inherit 
> from labeledURI, to make its semantics more obvious.
> 
> -- 
>   -- Howard Chu
>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
>   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
>   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP     http://www.openldap.org/project/
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