Re: Listing request names

[Michael Mealling <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Weider said this:
> Michael:
>   The OID registration service is implicit in the listing being able to
> assign names to the nameless.

Sure. But are those the names that the schema is supposed to use within
its own system? I.e. are the OIDs the service assigns going to the the
OIDs that LDAP uses everywhere?

By nameless do you mean schema's that have not yet been created or 
schema that use names other than OIDs?

-MM

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Michael Mealling [SMTP:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	Sunday, November 23, 1997 9:05 PM
> > To:	M.Wahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc:	phoffman@xxxxxxx; ietf-schema-reg@xxxxxxx
> > Subject:	Re: Listing request names
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
>

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