Draft: draft-ietf-ldapbis-protocol-30.txt
Review: Joel M. Halpern
Date: 19 april 2005 

This is a general area review during last call.
These are late reviews provided at the request of the general area 
director.
Current guidelines for these reviews can be found at:
     http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/review-guidelines.html
This reviewer does not have particular expertise in LDAP.

This document appears ready for publication as a Proposed Standard.

Minor comments:
It might be easier on the reader if the second paragraph of 1.1 started 
with "This document completes the process of obsoleting RFC 2251.  For 
clarity, the following sections of 2251were obsoleted by other 
documents.  ..."

I presume that the AuthMeth, LDAPDN, LDAPIANA, LDAPURL, Models, 
Roadmap, SASL, SASLPrep, StringPrep, Syntaxes, and TLS drafts are all 
near, at, or completed IETF last call?  That is an impressive list of 
normative Internet Draft dependencies.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

PS: I really like the wording "
This specification was generally written with the TCP mapping in mind. 
Specifications detailing other mappings may encounter various 
obstacles." in section 5.