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Re: Ignoring tagged elements in RFC 2251

To: "Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>
Subject: Re: Ignoring tagged elements in RFC 2251
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:26:34 -0800
Cc: <ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <sa115f1b.042@prv-mail20.provo.novell.com>

At 03:49 PM 11/14/00 -0700, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>Section 4, contains the wording:
>"In order to support future extensions to this protocol, clients and servers MUST ignore elements of SEQUENCE encodings whose tags they do not recognize."
> 
>I assume that this means: "In order to support future extensions to this protocol, clients and servers MUST ignore tagged elements of PDU encodings that they do not recognize."

No.  It means what it says and should be left as is.

> 
>Basically I've moved "tags" to "tagged" before elements (only to clarify), and changed SEQUENCE to PDU (because I think it really means any SEQUENCE, SET, or CHOICE).
> 
>Does anyone see a problem with this?

I do.

References:
- Ignoring tagged elements in RFC 2251
  - From: "Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>

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