Adding extra fields from an external source

[Ian Allison]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:03:31AM +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> 
> Nobody registered Dovecot attributes with IANA, because IMHO it is quite
> implementor-specfic. Because of that, there cannot exist anything
> "official". How many quota rules do you have? Others may have plenty more,
> ... . But maybe, an Dovecot arc would help some people.
> 
> However, see
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/schema.html#Extending%20Schema
> 
> "To obtain a registered OID at no cost, apply for an OID under the Internet
> Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) maintained Private Enterprise arc. Any
> private enterprise (organization) may request an OID to be assigned under
> this arc. Just fill out the IANA form at
> http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/enterprise.pl and your official OID will be sent
> to you usually within a few days. Your base OID will be something like
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.X where X is an integer.

I've started off the process with IANA and I've started designing an
auxiliary schema as Christian suggested. I just didn't want to be doing
it unnecessarily, but it looks like that is the best solution.

Thanks for your help!

-Ian.