My vote is for having neutral OIDs (OIDs not associated with any one company) allocated for the LDAP schema(s) for printers. It's nice to know that SUN doesn't plan to use the OIDs for any other purpose, but why should the industry as a whole have to depend on any one company's OID management when IANA is set up for that purpose? Again, if the overhead for securing new OIDs is low, it makes sense to me to go down that path.
Two cents.
-Hugo
>>> James Kempf <James.Kempf at Eng.Sun.COM> 04/25/00 04:43PM >>>
I think I understand now what some of the confusion around the OIDs taken
from the SLP template conversion draft might be.
I'm looking at an Internet draft, draft-sun-ldap-print-schema-00.txt,
done by Ken Jones of Sun which appears to be a Sun-specific LDAP schema for
printers, dated this Feburary. This draft has *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING* to do with
draft-ietf-svrloc-template-conversion-05.txt, which is an official
document of the SLP working group, on track for an informational RFC. As Ludovic
pointed out, the fact that the OIDs were reserved means that they *WILL NOT* be
used for anything else, and that they explicitly belong to the SLP working
group to use in the RFC. Sun won't be using them or deriving anything from them
for any internal purpose.
If people are still uncomfortable with having Sun allocated OIDs in
the schema, I have a request pending at IANA to get a special OID
for the draft. I will not follow up on the request unless I hear
some strong voices to the contrary.
I'd also suggest that someone from the IPP group follow up with Ken
and see whether he might not be interested in using the standardized
schema (I'll try on my end as well).
jak