[email protected] wrote: >> Michael Ströder wrote: >>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>>> On 01/15/2013 07:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Please consider the attached patch which sets allowed >>>>>> "USAGE dSAOperation". This seems to be the most appropriate USAGE >>>>>> compara= >>>>>> ble >>>>>> to what's set for entryTTL in slapo-dds. >>>>> >>>>> No objection with this patch, since those properties were >>>>> "arbitrarily" >>>>> assigned to attributes defined by others to provide software >>>>> interoperability. Unless anyone has objections, I'd commit it. >>>> >>>> Go ahead. Please add a comment about the origin of the schema >>>> definitions and >>>> these interoperability concerns. >>> >>> These attribute type descriptions were roughly taken from MS AD. >> >> I meant, please add a comment *in the patch* so it will remain in the >> source code. > > There's already a detailed comment to this end in the related README, > which links the attribute definitions on <http://msdn.microsoft.com/>.
As already noted, those links don't provide actual schema definitions, nor do they define the USAGE. We're making a judgement call here with no documentation to support it. We should document why we're defining it this way so we don't have to repeat this conversation again down the road. > > p. > >>> Today I've checked the subschema of a W2K8R2 AD server: >>> I did not find a single attribute type description with USAGE although >>> there >>> were attribute types formally defined in RFCs. One example is 'entryTTL' >>> defined with "USAGE dSAOperation" in RFC 2589 which in fact was >>> co-authored by >>> Microsoft employees. >>> >>> The official Microsoft documentation is here [MS-ADA1]: >>> >>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc219752.aspx >>> >>> Ciao, Michael. >>> >> >> >> >> > >
