Re: DSML futures

[Chris Ridd <Chris.Ridd@messagingdirect.com>]

On Tue, 16 May 2000 08:15:21 PDT, Rob Weltman wrote:
> James Tauber wrote:
> 
> > The following were identified by the DSML 1.0 WG as work items that were of
> > potential interest but outside the scope of 1.0
> >
> > Perhaps these could form the basis for discussing the scope for the
> > subsequent revisions to DSML to be produced by the proposed OASIS TC:
> >
> > - specification of queries against a directory
> > - indication of source of directory entries
> > - organization of directory entries hierarchically
> > - normalization of distinguished names
> > - directory access method, communication of error messages, etc
> > - directory content manipulation
> > - access control information
> >
> 
>   Yes. I'd prioritize them in the following order:
> 
> 1, 4, 6, 5, 7, 2, 3

I agree with the ordering, except that I don't think access controls 
will need solving once directory content manipulation is solved. Since 
all access controls are held in attributes, fixing the value 
representation problems will automatically let us store ACI stuff.

So 3 might be a kind of short item :-)

Chris