The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'LDAP Extensions for Scrolling View Browsing of Search Results' <draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-vlv-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the LDAP Extension Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ned Freed and Patrik Faltstrom. Technical Summary This document describes a Virtual List View control extension for the LDAP Search operation. This control is designed to allow the "virtual list box" feature, common in existing commercial e-mail address book applications, to be supported efficiently by LDAP servers. LDAP servers' inability to support this client feature is a significant impediment to LDAP replacing proprietary protocols in commercial e-mail systems. The control allows a client to specify that the server return, for a given LDAP search with associated sort keys, a contiguous subset of the search result set. This subset is specified in terms of offsets into the ordered list, or in terms of a greater than or equal comparison value. Working Group Summary The working group had consensus on producing this paper even though a similar functionality exists already in "Simple Paged Results" which is specified in RFC 2696 (as described in section 8 of this document). Protocol Quality Patrik Faltstrom reviewed the document for the IESG.
