RE: Listing request names

[Chris Weider <cweider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Mealling [SMTP:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Monday, November 24, 1997 10:43 AM
> To:	Chris Weider
> Cc:	michaelm@xxxxxxxxxx; M.Wahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; phoffman@xxxxxxx;
> ietf-schema-reg@xxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: Listing request names
> 
> Chris Weider said this:
> > Michael:
> >   The OID registration service is implicit in the listing being able to
> > assign names to the nameless.
	[Chris Weider]  
> 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?
	[Chris Weider]  Yes

> By nameless do you mean schema's that have not yet been created or 
> schema that use names other than OIDs?
	[Chris Weider]  Yes, and for schema that do not yet have unique ids
assigned (e.g. Dublin Core).
> -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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