[Council] meeting reminder

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Wed Nov 21 17:12:05 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> If the LDAP folks haven't standardized this, there is no expectation
>> that we users of LDAP protocols will do so. As far as I can see, LDAP
>> groups are implementation-specific and deployment-specific.
> 
> There are some standardized representations of groups, I believe - the
> trouble is, there's more than one.

Ah, the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
from...

>>  We defined
>> the "muc#roominfo_ldapgroup" field for people who deploy MUC in
>> enterprise environments. However, the exact nature of the LDAP group
>> behind that field depends on how that organization has set up its
>> directories. Or so it seems to me.
> 
> That's fine, but I think the document needs to be clear it's a field
> with a locally defined value.

Rightio, I'll clarify that.

> Oh, is this meant to be an LDAP URL, or a search filter, or a DN? Or
> doesn't that matter?

I think a DN. But I'll check with the folks who suggested this.

Peter

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