[Ietf-not43] First draft on Relay bags in FIRS

[Peter Gietz]

catching up with some older postings:

Eric A. Hall wrote:

> on 8/13/2003 8:37 AM Peter Gietz wrote:
> 
> 
>>please find attached a first version of the promissed Draft on FIRS 
>>Relay Bag.
> 
> 
>>   A FIRS client SHOULD evaluate if the server it initially connects to
>>   supports this feature, by checking if the controlType Object
>>   Identifier of the control specified in this document
>>   (relayBagSearchOID) is stored in the attribute supportedControl of
>>   the root DSE entry, which is specified in [RFC2251], section 3.4.
> 
> 
> I'll put some more time into this in a couple of days but the first thing
> that jumps out at me is that this should be a MAY instead of a SHOULD. Too
> many round-trips spent on query setup will make this service unusable for
> fast lookups. There might be some other options for dealing with the need
> for this, such as having the control returned as a bind response similar
> to firsVersion.

I'll put MAY instead of SHOULD for now. To integrate this with a FIRS 
version negotiation bind control is ok with me. I need your text on the 
bind control befor I can refer to it.


> 
> Also, does there need to be any wording on how the data should be
> encapsulated within an LDAP URL?
> 

I think this is outdated now if relay bags will not be part of an URL.

But again we have here the "LDAP has more predefined features than 
XML"-"problem". Do we want to have the relay bag feature be usable 
inside LDAP URLs, which BTW have the full LDAP search functionality? If 
so we have to define the URL encoding and additional text in a section 
on "Using the relay bag in LDAP-URLS".

I haven't seen such in other search control specs yet and don't really 
think it is neccessary.

Cheers,

Peter


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