Kurt Zeilenga wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:34 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Kurt Zeilenga wrote: >>> obsoletes != OBSOLETE, so no. That is, the meaning of the term >>> 'obsolete' is quite different in these two contexts. >>> >>> The latter context the term is defined as follows: The OBSOLETE field, if >>> present, indicates the element is not active. >> >> I agree that OBSOLETE should not be set in this case. >> >>> For user application attribute types, whether the type is active or not is, >>> I think, best left to the schema administrator. >> >> Who is the schema administrator? > > Generally speaking, the OpenLDAP admin administrates which schema elements > to load into the schema and whether each such element is active and > inactive.
What does "active and inactive" mean exactly? Does that include changing the OBSOLETE keyword in schema files? I hope not... > While in some cases a schema admin might design schema elements, I consider > schema admin and schema element designer to be two separate roles. Agreed. >> I'm nitpicking here because on the OpenLDAP >> lists we all keep telling OpenLDAP admins not to mess with the standard >> schema >> at all. > > We often advise admins to load various schema elements into their schemas. The role for loading the shipped schema files is not the question here. > When at I say "don't mess with standard schema elements", what I mean is > don't change aspects of schema specifications which are consider per the > technical specifications to be immutable on published in a technical > specification (or otherwise broadly published). Does "immutable" include OBSOLETE? I hope so... Ciao, Michael.
