short names, in general (Re: Comment on I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-08.txt)

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

At 08:13 AM 2002-08-28, David Chadwick wrote (in part):
>I would like 5.3 to be edited as follows
>
>5.3. Use of Other Names
>
>  Attribute type names are not unique unless recorded in an
>internationally agreed document (such as an IETF standard like this one)
>or registry (such as IANA).

No.  RFC 2251 says:
   Attribute type textual names are non-unique, as two different
   specifications (neither in standards track RFCs) may choose the same
   name.

This means that there cannot be two "foo" on the Standard Track.
But there can be a "foo" on the Standard Track and multiple "foo"s
defined otherwise.

We'd actually have to mandate that only registered short names
(and private use names, e.g. x-name) be used in LDAP to eliminate
the possibility that a future registered name doesn't conflict
with preexisting names.

Is that what you want?  What do others think?

Kurt