RE: Partial attributes

["Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>]

Yes.
 
Ron.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Sermersheim [mailto:JIMSE@novell.com]
Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2000 10:53
To: Jim Sermersheim; ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Partial attributes



Section 4.1.8 in RFC 2251states:
 
"(Though attributes MUST have at least one value when stored, due to access
control restrictions the set may be empty when transferred in protocol. This
is described in section 4.5.2, concerning the PartialAttributeList type.)"
 
This section as well as 4.5.2 don't make a distinction between "transferred
in protocol" and "transferred by the server to the client" implying that its
allowable for a client to send an attribute with no values. There is
surrounding language that implies that this case is specific to server
emissions. Should there be explicit language?
 
Jim