RE: versioning

["Salter, Thomas A" <Thomas.Salter@unisys.com>]

I think it's safe to say that most commercial LDAP implementations support
v3.  

It's also probably true that most v3 servers support most v2 clients (or at
least most features of most v2 clients).  It's hard to make a firm statement
about this because many v2 clients did not precisely imiplement RFC1777.
For example, few v2 implementations used T.61 characters and many support
v3-style certificate syntaxes.

The v3 standard (RFC 2251) does NOT require a v3 server to support v2
clients.

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: David Rysdam [mailto:drysdam@yahoo.com]
 > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 3:02 PM
 > To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
 > Subject: versioning
 > 
 > 
 > I think I already have this figured out, but as the
 > answer will cause (is causing) an uproar around here,
 > I thought I'd better get this from the horse's mouth.
 > 
 > We've been using the UMich v3.3 code base to add LDAP
 > (server and client) capabilities to our product. 
 > We've been calling this "LDAPv3".  However, this code
 > seems to actually implement LDAPv2.  Is this correct?
 > 
 > The OpenLDAP project started from the v3.3 base--did
 > anyone else start from the same base? 
 > 
 > Are there ANY LDAPv3 servers (or clients) existing?
 > 
 > Do/will LDAPv3 servers fully support LDAPv2 clients?
 > 
 > Will OpenLDAP 2.0 (which implements LDAPv3) still
 > require the isode libraries?  Will it be necessary to
 > obtain these libraries from "ISODE, Inc" or will the
 > libraries we have still work?
 > 
 > 
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