Re: AttributeTypeValue and binary

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 06:01 PM 1/24/01 -0500, Mark Smith wrote:
>I think the revised text is better but still a little confusing and
>awkward (although the OCTET STRING wrapper issue has been addressed). 
>At the risk of being "wordy" I suggest:
>
> If the companion AttributeDescription to an AttributeValue does not
> contain the "binary" option, then the AttributeValue field is an
> OCTET STRING that contains a string encoded value.
>
> If the companion AttributeDescription to an AttributeValue contains the
> "binary" option, then the AttributeValue field is an OCTET STRING
> that contains an encoded binary value of the AttributeValue data type.

This could be taken as disallowing other transfer options.
The previous wording likely could have been taken that
way too.