Network Working Group K. Zeilenga
Request for Comments: 4520 OpenLDAP Foundation
BCP: 64 June 2006
Obsoletes: 3383
Category: Best Current Practice
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for
the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the
Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
Abstract
This document provides procedures for registering extensible elements
of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The document
also provides guidelines to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA) describing conditions under which new values can be assigned.
1. Introduction
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [RFC4510] (LDAP) is an
extensible protocol. LDAP supports:
- the addition of new operations,
- the extension of existing operations, and
- the extensible schema.
This document details procedures for registering values used to
unambiguously identify extensible elements of the protocol, including
the following:
- LDAP message types
- LDAP extended operations and controls
- LDAP result codes
- LDAP authentication methods
- LDAP attribute description options
- Object Identifier descriptors
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These registries are maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA).
In addition, this document provides guidelines to IANA describing the
conditions under which new values can be assigned.
This document replaces RFC 3383.
2. Terminology and Conventions
This section details terms and conventions used in this document.
2.1. Policy Terminology
The terms "IESG Approval", "Standards Action", "IETF Consensus",
"Specification Required", "First Come First Served", "Expert Review",
and "Private Use" are used as defined in BCP 26 [RFC2434].
The term "registration owner" (or "owner") refers to the party
authorized to change a value's registration.
2.2. Requirement Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119]. In
this case, "the specification", as used by BCP 14, refers to the
processing of protocols being submitted to the IETF standards
process.
2.3. Common ABNF Productions
A number of syntaxes in this document are described using ABNF
[RFC4234]. These syntaxes rely on the following common productions:
ALPHA = %x41-5A / %x61-7A ; "A"-"Z" / "a"-"z"
LDIGIT = %x31-39 ; "1"-"9"
DIGIT = %x30 / LDIGIT ; "0"-"9"
HYPHEN = %x2D ; "-"
DOT = %x2E ; "."
number = DIGIT / ( LDIGIT 1*DIGIT )
keychar = ALPHA / DIGIT / HYPHEN
leadkeychar = ALPHA
keystring = leadkeychar *keychar
keyword = keystring
Keywords are case insensitive.
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3. IANA Considerations for LDAP
This section details each kind of protocol value that can be
registered and provides IANA guidelines on how to assign new values.
IANA may reject obviously bogus registrations.
LDAP values specified in RFCs MUST be registered. Other LDAP values,
except those in private-use name spaces, SHOULD be registered. RFCs
SHOULD NOT reference, use, or otherwise recognize unregistered LDAP
values.
3.1. Object Identifiers
Numerous LDAP schema and protocol elements are identified by Object
Identifiers (OIDs) [X.680]. Specifications that assign OIDs to
elements SHOULD state who delegated the OIDs for their use.
For IETF-developed elements, specifications SHOULD use OIDs under
datatracker.ietf.org