Status of --auto-key-locate ldap?

[Damien Goutte-Gattat]

Hi GnuPG developers,

The manual for gpg mentions the "ldap" method for the --auto-key-locate 
feature. If I understand correctly, with this method, when gpg is asked 
to locate a key for alice at example.com, it should query a LDAP server 
(which it finds either through a SRV record in the DNS, or by assuming 
it is at keys.example.com) for the requested key.

That behavior is currently not implemented. The logic for it is still 
present in the keyserver_import_ldap function (in g10/keyserver.c), but 
has been commented out.

Is there any plan to reactivate this feature? I don't remember seeing 
anyone complaining about its absence. Was it deactivated because no one 
was actually using it?

The reason I'm asking this is that I'm currently writing an article 
attempting to describe all the available methods for publishing and 
locating public keys (from the "classic" HKP keyservers to the recently 
introduced Web Key Directories), and I would like to know whether it is 
worthwhile to mention LDAP auto-discovery.

Thanks,

Damien

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