Re: ;binary and (supertypes of an attribute description)

["Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>]

I'd like to find a general way in the protocol document to make a distinction between "transfer specifier options" and "subtyping options". Once that is done, I'd like to make the "An AttributeDescription with one or more options is treated as a subtype" statement apply ONLY to "subtyping options".

Are there reasons not to do this?  If so, I'd have to vote that each "transfer specifier option" specify whether or not it is an exception to the subtype rule (more explicitly than is currently being done).

Jim

>>> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> 3/14/01 9:56:14 AM >>>
The essence of this issue is application of:
   An AttributeDescription with one or more options
   is treated as a subtype of the attribute type
   without any options.

to an AttributeDescription such as userCertificate;binary
and the description that the binary transfer option.

That is,
   userCertificate;binary is treated as a subtype of
   userCertificate.

and section 4.1.5.1 implies that userCertificate;binary
is NOT to be treated as a subtype of userCertificate.

Ugh.

Kurt