Re: Cosine schema - RFC 4524

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Zdenek Styblik wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Zdenek Styblik wrote:
>>> my question is regarding updated Cosine schema [RFC 4524] which has been
>>> accepted in March 1991 by IANA. This obsoletes previous Cosine schema
>>> [RFC 1274].
>>> OpenLDAP has support for RFC 4524, yet it comes with pre-defined older
>>> RFC 1274.
>> Could you please elaborate on which specific problems you see with
>> cosine.schema shipped with OpenLDAP (despite the outdated comment and
>> DESC texts)?
> 
> I've re-checked RFC again, and you are correct. Judging by Appendix A, I
> probably got confused by X.500 names and LDAPs shortened ones, as I'm
> looking for solution/ideas in both [LDAP/X.500 RFCs].

Your question was perfectly valid. It showed that cosine.schema would
need some editorial changes to be updated to RFC 4524 (comments etc.).
I've filed ITS#6151 for that. My question was whether you see any real
compability issues with the schema descriptions.

Ciao, Michael.