The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The LDAP entryUUID operational attribute ' <draft-zeilenga-ldap-uuid-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ted Hardie. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-uuid-06.txt Technical Summary In X.500 Directory Services [X.501], such as those accessible using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) [RFC3377], an object is identified by its distinguished name (DN). However, DNs are not stable identifiers. That is, a new object may be identified by a DN which previously identified another (now renamed or deleted) object. This document describes the 'entryUUID' operational attribute which holds the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) [ISO11578] assigned to the object by the server. Clients may use this attribute to distinguish objects identified by a distinguished name or to locate an object after renaming. This document also describes mechanisms for matching and ordering these identifiers. Note, however, that not all UUID variants have a defined ordering and servers are not obligated to assign these identifers in any particular order. The matching rule is provided for completeness. Working Group Summary Though this is an individual submission, there was discussion of this mechanism within the LDUP working group as well as on the mailing list associated with the concluded LDAPext working group. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
