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

[Andrew Newton]

Eric A. Hall wrote:
> on 8/18/2003 9:57 AM Leslie Daigle wrote:
> 
> 
>>Once you've defined the FIRS approach to CRISP as being a very
>>profiled use of LDAP, it becomes harder to use off-the-shelf clients,
>>servers and even libraries to build FIRS-compliant software.  Each
>>of these off-the-shelf-components has its own view on the *generic*
>>LDAP universe that is going to be inconsistent with FIRS' restrictions.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I agree with this and stil think that URL extensions represent the
> least disruption since they are known parts of the core spec.
> 

Throwing 2 and 4k url-encoded binary data in a URL is certainly not what 
they were meant for and it has been known to cause problems with 
software in the past.  Otherwise, I would tend to agree with you.  This 
is why I favor Peter's solution.  As for the differing of opinions on 
the LDAP interactions involved: I honestly do not know.

-andy