Re: Component Matching Rules

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

At 02:37 PM 4/30/01, Kathy Dally wrote:
>"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
>> 
>> At 12:51 PM 4/30/01, Kathy Dally wrote:
>> >In RFC 2252, the integerFirstComponentMatch and
>> >objectIdentifierFirstComponentMatch matching rules are limited to
>> >matching subschema attributes.
>> 
>> No.  These are general matching rules.  RFC 2252 only requires
>> that they be implemented servers "which allow subschema entries
>> to be modified by clients", but they may be supported by any
>> implementation for any attribute of suitable syntax.
>kld:  Ok.  Then, I propose that there not be a separate section on 
>subschema attribute matching rules.  The two that are in section 8.4, 
>RFC 2252 should be moved into section 8.1. 

Or the title of 8.4 changed to "First Component matching rules"
or the like.

>I am working with your strawman suggestions, in which 
>new elements were introduced.

The strawman suggestions I wrote last summer should be treated
only as food for thought.