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INTERNET-DRAFT Kurt D. Zeilenga
Intended Category: Standard Track OpenLDAP Foundation
Expires: 4 January 2001 4 July 2000
LDAPv3: Grouping of Related Operations
<draft-zeilenga-ldap-grouping-00.txt>
Status of Memo
This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
This document is intended to be, after appropriate review and
revision, submitted to the RFC Editor as a Standard Track document.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Technical discussion of this
document will take place on the IETF LDAP Extension Working Group
mailing list <ietf-ldapext@netscape.com>. Please send editorial
comments directly to the author <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>.
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Copyright 2000, The Internet Society. All Rights Reserved.
Please see the Copyright section near the end of this document for
more information.
1. Abstract
This document provides a general mechanisms for grouping related LDAP
operations. Grouping of operations may be used to support
replication, proxies, and higher level operations such as
transactions. This document describes a set of LDAP [RFC2251]
extended operations and other protocol and schema elements to support
grouping of related operations.
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2. Overview
This document provides a mechanism to allow clients to group
operations.
A group of operations is defined as a set of operations upon a common
session identified by a unique cookie. All requests which are
initiated with the same cookie belong to same grouping. The cookie is
obtained using the create group operation and is normally valid until
the end group operation is issued. A group may be ended by a server
prematurely as noted described below.
Operations regardless of their grouping (or lack of grouping) may be
intermixed. Groups may be nested.
Each group is of a particular type. This type defines the semantics
of the group and is specified when the group is created.
The key words "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD",
"SHOULD NOT", "MAY" and "MAY NOT" used in this document are to be
interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
3. Protocol Elements
This document describes two extended operations, one unsolicited
notification, and one control. Extended operations and controls are
described by LDAP [RFC2251] as follows:
ExtendedRequest ::= [APPLICATION 23] SEQUENCE {
requestName [0] LDAPOID,
requestValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
ExtendedResponse ::= [APPLICATION 24] SEQUENCE {
COMPONENTS of LDAPResult,
responseName [10] LDAPOID OPTIONAL,
response [11] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
Control ::= SEQUENCE {
controlType LDAPOID,
criticality BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
controlValue OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
Editor's Note:
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OID which appear in this document are fictious. Actual OIDs will be
assigned before this document is progressed.
3.1 Common Protocol Elements
groupCookie :== OCTET STRING
A groupCookie is an arbitrary octet string uniquely identify a
grouping of related operations within the session.
A groupCookie is a notational convenience.
3.2 createGrouping Operation
The createGrouping extended operation is used to create or start a
grouping of related operations. The operation consists of the
createGroupingRequest and the createGroupingResponse. The OID
createGroupingOID identifies this operation and SHOULD be listed as a
value of supportedExtensions in the root DSE of servers which support
this operation.
createGroupingOID ::= "1.1.1"
3.2.1 createGroupingRequest
The client initiates this operation by sending a
createGroupingRequest. This request is an ExtendedRequest where the
requestName is the value createGroupOID and requestValue is BER
encoded createGroupingRequestValue
createGroupingRequestValue ::= SEQUENCE {
createGroupType [0] LDAPOID,
createGroupValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
where createGroupType is an OID that describes the specific type of
grouping and createGroupValue contains a type specific payload.
3.2.1 createGroupingResponse
The createGroupingResponse is sent in response to a
createGroupingRequest. This response is an ExtendedResponse where the
responseName MUST be the value of the requestName provided in request
and the response is a BER encoded createGroupingResponseValue.
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createGroupingResponseValue ::= SEQUENCE {
createGroupCookie [0] groupCookie,
createGroupValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
where createGroupCookie is a cookie uniquely identifying the grouping
and createGroupValue is a type specific payload.
3.3 endGrouping Operation
The endGrouping extended operation is used to end or stop a grouping
of related operations. The operation consists of the
endGroupingRequest and the endGroupingResponse. The OID
endGroupingOID identifies this operation and SHOULD be listed as a
value of supportedExtensions in the root DSE of servers which support
this operation.
endGroupingOID ::= "1.1.2"
3.3.1 endGroupingRequest
The client initiates this operation by sending an endGroupingRequest.
This request is an ExtendedRequest where the requestName is the value
endGroupOID and requestValue is BER encoded endGroupingRequestValue
endGroupingRequestValue ::= SEQUENCE {
endGroupCookie [0] groupCookie,
groupValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
where endGroupCookie is an cookie identifying the grouping and
groupValue contains a type specific payload.
3.3.2 endGroupingResponse
The endGroupingResponse is sent in response to a endGroupingRequest.
This response is an ExtendedResponse where the responseName MUST be
the value of the requestName provided in request and the response is a
BER encoded endGroupingResponseValue
endGroupingResponseValue ::= SEQUENCE {
groupValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
where groupValue is a type specific payload.
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3.4 endGroupingNotice
The endGroupingNotice is an LDAP unsolicited notification. The
notification may be sent to the client to end a grouping which the
server is unable or unwilling to continue to process. The notice is
an extendedResponse where the responseName is the OID
endGroupingNoticeOID and the response is a BER encoded
endGroupingNoticeValue
endGroupingNoticeOID ::= "1.1.3"
endGroupingNoticeValue ::= SEQUENCE {
endGroupingCookie [0] groupCookie,
groupValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
where endGroupingCookie is a cookie uniquely identifying the grouping
and groupingValue contains a type specific payload.
3.5 groupingControl
The groupingControl is used to identify requests and responses as
belonging to grouping of operations. The groupingControl is a Control
where the controlType is the OID groupingControlOID and the
criticalValue is a BER encoded groupingControlValue
groupingControlOID ::= "1.1.4"
groupingControlValue ::= SEQUENCE {
groupingCookie [0] groupCookie,
groupValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
}
where groupingCookie is a cookie uniquely identifying the grouping,
the critical is TRUE, and groupingValue contains a type specific
payload.
The value groupingControlOID SHOULD be listed as a value of
supportedControls in the root DSE by servers which support this
control.
The control MAY be present on add, compare, delete, moddn, modify, and
search requests and responses. The control SHALL NOT be present on a
abandon, bind, unbind. The control SHALL NOT be present on any
extended operation which affects the behavior of the session such as
the Start TLS [RFC2830] operation. The control SHALL NOT be present
if the operation includes any control which likewise causes the
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operation to affects the behavior of the session.
The control SHALL NOT appear multiple times in the same LDAP PDU and.
If multiple occurrences of the control are detected, the PDU MUST be
treated as a protocol error.
4. Schema Elements
4.1. supportedGroupingTypes
Servers SHOULD publish grouping types they support listing their OID
as values of the supportedGrouping attribute type in the root DSE.
The supportedGrouping attribute type is defined as:
( 1.1.5 NAME 'supportedGroupingTypes'
DESC 'supported types of groupings of operations'
EQUALITY objectIdentifierMatch
SYNTAX ObjectIdentifierSyntax )
5. Operational Semantics
This section needs work.
5.1 Grouping Operations
5.1.1 createGrouping
To group related operations, the client MUST request a groupCookie
from the server by sending a createGroupingRequest as described in
3.2.1. The client SHALL provide type specific payload in
createGroupValue if so required by the grouping type.
The server SHALL respond with a createGroupingResponse as described in
3.2.2. If the server is willing and able to create the grouping as
requested (and per type requirements), it SHALL respond with success,
provide a session-unique groupCookie and, if appropriate, a type
specific payload. Otherwise the server SHALL respond with a non-
successful response and provide no groupCookie, but MAY, if
appropriate, provide a type specific payload.
5.1.2 endGrouping
When the client wishes to end the grouping, the client SHALL send a
endGroupingRequest as described in 3.3.1. The client SHALL provide
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the groupCookie of the grouping to be ended and MAY provided a type
specific payload.
The server SHALL respond with an endGroupingResponse as described in
3.3.2.
5.1.3 endGroupNotice
The server MAY end a group without solicitation for any reason but
MUST send a endGrouping Notice, as described in 3.4, indicating this
action. The server SHALL provide the groupCookie of the group it
terminated and MAY provide a type specific payload. The notice SHALL
have a non-success resultCode.
5.1.4 grouped operations
Operations with a group are carry a groupingControl as described in
3.5.
Group type specifications MAY restrict the types and/or number of
operations which may be related. Servers MAY also place restrictions
upon groupings. Clients SHOULD NOT assume arbitrary support for
grouping.
5.1.5 nested groupings
Groups of the same or different types may be nested. A nested group
is instantiated by providing a groupingControl containing the parent
group with the createGroupingRequest.
Group type specifications MAY restrict the types of groupings which
may be nested. Servers MAY also place restrictions upon nesting.
Clients SHOULD NOT assume arbitrary support for nesting.
5.3 Other Operations
Upon issuing of any grouping operation, semantics of non-grouping
operations listed is modified as described below.
5.3.1 bind
The client SHOULD end all outstanding groupings before issuing a bind
request.
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The bind operation MUST, in addition to the behavior described in RFC
2251, must abandon all outstanding groups.
5.3.2 unbind
The unbind operation MUST, in addition to the behavior described in
RFC 2251, must abandon all outstanding groups.
5.3.3 Start TLS
The client SHALL end all outstanding groupings before issuing a Start
TLS request.
The Start TLS operation MUST, in addition to the behavior described in
RFC 2830, return operationsError if there are any outstanding
groupings.
7. Security Considerations
This mechanism may be used to support complex groupings of related
operations for arbitrary purposes. This document places no
restrictions on how the grouped operations relate to each other.
It is conceived that different groups of operations may have different
authorization and/or access controls associated with them (when used
to multiplex proxied directory sessions). Authors of specifications
for such groupings take special care in addressing security issues.
It is conceived that different groups of operations may form complex
super-operations such as transactions. Authors of specifications for
such groupings should take special care to address denial of service
issues.
8. References
[RFC2119] S. Bradner, "Key Words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", Harvard University, RFC 2119, March
1997.
[RFC2251] M. Wahl, S. Kille, T. Howes, "Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (v3)", RFC 2251, December 1997.
9. Acknowledgments
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The author gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the IETF LDUP
and LDAPext working group.
10. Additional Information
Discussions regarding these suggestions may directed to the author:
Kurt D. Zeilenga
OpenLDAP Foundation
<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
or the LDAPext Working Group mailing list:
<ietf-ldapext@netscape.com>
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