concerns with ldap plugin and 1.5

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:

    Nicolas> How important it is to get this right will depend in part
    Nicolas> on whether MIT wants to support third party kdb plug-ins.
    Nicolas> If the SPI is to be an open SPI then this design
    Nicolas> oversight needs to be addressed.

The SPI is an internal API.  we certainly expect several vendors to
write or modify database plugins, but we only expect this to work if
they are also building or shipping Kerberos.

Long term we may want to expose the SPI, but that would be fairly hard
because of its internal dependencies.

--Sam