Currently a dangling reference to a UUID draft to a draft authored by Paul Leach, which has expired. Chris Harding reports that this is present in the DCE Procedure Calls specification. There is a patent application by Novell for transitive update vectors. The Novell representatives to LDUP are handling this. Creation and deletion of replicas needs more wording.
Architecture says that there is a unique identifier in every entry.
Client consistency models. The constraints that LDAP imposes are considerable. So we should write a BCP draft that formalizes a set of rules into guidelines that help writers of the client. This is a call for client writers. Jeff Hodges is interested but must get cleared.