I wrote:
And speaking for my own little corner of the standardization process, I definitly was ignorant about them and wanted nothing to do with them. I've still never had any use for LDAP referrals.
Hmm. Now that I think of it, that's not true. I did get involved in the details, sort of, but indeed not with the "big picture". It's just in real life I never used them, so to me it was almost a purely theoretical exercise.