On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanj...@wso2.com>wrote:
> +1 for going ahead. Please use external-relati...@wso2.com as the email > address for the application so we can track it and manage it properly. > Thanks for seeing this thru. > > Of course I know nothing about LDAP so maybe someone who does should review > the technical merits :). > > Sanjiva. > Thank you for the reply. I filled the application form and submitted. As they have mentioned, we will also need to complete the follow up process to obtain the IOD through e-mail communication as required. Thanks, Hasini. > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Hasini Gunasinghe <has...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> There is a requirement of defining a custom object class schema with the >> required attributes which are not defined in ApacheDS-LDAP by default >> (issues: CARBON-8215 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-8215>, >> CARBON-8054 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-8054>) >> According to the specification [1] on defining LDAP attributes, object >> classes, we need to have an OID for that attribute/object class to be >> uniquely identified by the LDAP directory server. >> >> Although we can use a made up OID for experimental use, it is recommended >> to use a registered OID if we are going to ship it with a product. [2,3] >> >> There are several ways of obtaining an OID [4] among which one easy way of >> obtaining it is: from IANA. >> For that we need to fill and submit the application here [5]. >> Once we are assigned an OID, it will be displayed in the OID registry as >> [6]. >> >> Please let me know if there is any concerns/guidelines in applying for an >> OID in the above way. >> >> It is mentioned that it will be sent with in 30 days. And if we did not >> obtain it before the coming release, as a backup plan we can use an >> unregistered OID with a generated UUID appended as mentioned in [7, 8]. >> Please let me know if any of you are aware of any concern in going with >> the latter approach as well. >> >> [1]. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4512.txt >> [2]. >> http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/31-add-your-first-elements-to-the-schema.html#3.1.Addyourfirstelementstotheschema-WhichOIDsshouldyouuse%253F >> [3]. http://ldapwiki.willeke.com/wiki/HowToGetYourOwnLDAPOID >> [4]. http://www.oid-info.com/faq.htm#10 >> [5]. http://pen.iana.org/pen/PenApplication.page >> [6]. http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers >> [7]. http://www.oid-info.com/get/2.25 >> [8]. http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/uuid.html#registration >> >> Thanks, >> Hasini. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Carbon-dev mailing list >> Carbon-dev@wso2.org >> https://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >> >> > > > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: sanj...@wso2.com; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | > +1 650 265 8311 > blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > Carbon-dev@wso2.org > https://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > >
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