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There are some inconsistencies between the two ways the
string is represented in 2.4 and 3.
2.4 talks about escaping a space character at the beginning or the end of
the string. It doesn't say whether multiple spaces each need to be
escaped.
3 includes "#" as a special char but not " ". The only time "#" needs to be
escaped is when it appears at the beginning of the string. Likewise, the space
char should be accounted for. I suggest these changes:
string = [ ESC
"#" ] [ *( ESC SPACE ) ] *( stringchar | pair ) [ *( ESC SPACE )
]
... special = "," / "=" / "+" / "<" / ">" / ";" SPACE = <the ASCII space character " "> ; decimal 32 Adjust if only the first or last of multiple leading or following spaces
needs to be escaped.
>>> <Internet-Drafts@ietf.org> 10/26/00 4:46:52 AM >>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3bis): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names Author(s) : K. Zeilenga Filename : draft-zeilenga-ldapbis-rfc2253-01.txt Pages : 9 Date : 25-Oct-00 The X.500 Directory uses distinguished names as the primary keys to entries in the directory. Distinguished Names are encoded in ASN.1 in the X.500 Directory protocols. In the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a string representation of distinguished names is transferred. This specification defines the string format for representing names, which is designed to give a clean representation of commonly used distinguished names, while being able to represent any distinguished name. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldapbis-rfc2253-01.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-zeilenga-ldapbis-rfc2253-01.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldapbis-rfc2253-01.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. |