Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
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Network Working Group                                        K. Zeilenga
Request for Comments: 3383                           OpenLDAP Foundation
BCP: 64                                                   September 2002
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 (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document provides procedures for registering extensible elements
   of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).  This 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 (LDAP) [RFC3377] is an
   extensible protocol.  LDAP supports:

   - addition of new operations,
   - extension of existing operations, and
   - extensible schema.

   This document details procedures for registering values of used to
   unambiguously identify extensible elements of the protocol including:

   - LDAP message types;
   - LDAP extended operations and controls;
   - LDAP result codes;
   - LDAP authentication methods;
   - LDAP attribute description options; and
   - Object Identifier descriptors.

   These registries are maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers
   Authority (IANA).

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   In addition, this document provides guidelines to IANA describing the
   conditions under which new values can be assigned.

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].

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
   [RFC2234].  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

   A keyword is a case-insensitive string of UTF-8 [RFC2279] encoded
   characters from the Universal Character Set (UCS) [ISO10646]
   restricted to the <keystring> production.

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3. IANA Considerations for LDAP

   This section details each kind of protocol value which can be
   registered and provides IANA guidelines on how to assign new values.

   IANA may reject obviously bogus registration requests.

3.1. Object Identifiers

   Numerous LDAP schema and protocol elements are identified by Object
   Identifiers.  Specifications which assign OIDs to elements SHOULD
   state who delegated the OIDs for its use.

   For IETF developed elements, specifications SHOULD use OIDs under
   "Internet Directory Numbers" (1.3.6.1.1.x).  Numbers under this OID
   arc will be assigned upon Expert Review with Specification Required.
   Only one OID per specification will be assigned.  The specification
   MAY then assign any number of OIDs within this arc without further
   coordination with IANA.

   For elements developed by others, any properly delegated OID can
   be used, including those under "Internet Private Enterprise
   Numbers" (1.3.6.1.4.1.x) assigned by IANA
   <http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/enterprise.pl>.

   To avoid interoperability problems between early implementations of
   "works in progress" and implementations of the published
   specification (e.g., the RFC), experimental OIDs SHOULD be used in
   "works in progress" and early implementations.  OIDs under the
   Internet Experimental OID arc (1.3.6.1.3.x) may be used for this
   purpose.

   Experimental OIDs are not to used in published specifications (e.g.,
   RFCs).