Re: LDAPS vs. StartTLS ext. op.
Howard Chu wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
> => If the OpenLDAP developers were really crazy enough to remove support
> for LDAPS from OpenLDAP I'd kick OpenLDAP out of my business
> immediately. Period.
If someone at IANA were to tell us that this number assignment was
officially withdrawn, then we would drop it. We really wouldn't have
much choice, nor would any other implementor that wanted to claim that
their LDAP product was fully IETF-compliant.
Sorry, but the assignment of a port number by IANA is not really
required for supporting LDAP over SSL/TLS on a separate port since you
could happily use ldaps://host:636 or any other port anyway and still be
IETF-compliant.
Ciao, Michael.