Re: Listing request names

[Michael Mealling <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Wahl said this:
> 
> I also am in agreement with Paul Hoffman's suggested approach, with one 
> modification: I would prefer to have the temporary OID assignment be done with
> a real-time protocol (e.g. HTTP?) than with a store-and-forward protocol (SMTP).
> When the user clicks the 'send to listing service' button on their schema 
> design tool, it would allow the tool to obtain an OID and send the message 
> immediately, rather than waiting for an intermediate response to wander 
> through the MTAs.
> 
> I don't see a problem with missing numbers in the sequence; when in future
> the listing service becomes pruned there will be more missing numbers.  
> 

Mark, 
  What is LDAP going to be doing with the OIDs that the registry assigns?
I assume that the above scenario is needed so that you can get and use
the registries assigned OID, right? If so are you planning on using the
registry's assigned OID as the OID of the actual schema in LDAP? If so
then I think that is a bad mistake. That means that not only is the
registry acting as a place to hold schema definitions, it has also become
an owner of schema definitions and an OID registration service. Neither of 
which we're ready for yet.

-MM

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