Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-08.txt

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

At 07:39 AM 2002-08-28, David Chadwick wrote:
>Kurt
>
>The ID states "It is not expected that LDAP
>  implementations with a human user interface would display these
>  strings directly to the user, but would most likely be performing
>  translations (such as expressing attribute type names in one of the
>  local national languages)."

as did RFC 2253.

>I think it is important that the ID adds after this
>
>"However, it is expected that LDAP APIs will return these strings as
>parameters to the calling program"

While for low-level APIs, this might be expected.  But a
high-level API designed to produce a string suitable for
presentation to the user, it might be expected to perform
translations.  I don't this document (or any "core" document)
has any business delineating what behaviors are to be
implemented above or below API boundaries.  APIs should
be viewed as beyond our scope.

Kurt