RE: AttributeTypeValue and binary

["Steven Legg" <steven.legg@adacel.com.au>]

Jim,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Jim Sermersheim
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2001 18:45
> To: ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: RE: AttributeTypeValue and binary
>
>
> I forgot to mention a related change to 4.1.7. The proposal
> is to change:
>
> "If the "binary" option is present in attributeDesc, this
> signals to the server that the assertionValue is a binary
> encoding of the assertion value."
>
> to:
>
> "If an option specifying the transfer encoding is present in
> attributeDesc, the assertionValue is encoded as specified by
> the option."

As an example of the kind of option we mean, I think it would be a good idea
to append a comment that ";binary" is a transfer encoding option , e.g.

'For example, the "binary" option specifies the BER encoding of the
AssertionValue.'

Regards,
Steven

>
> Please respond if you don't want to see this change in the
> protocol doc.
>
> Jim