Re: draft-ietf-ldapbis-syntaxes-02: oid = descr / numericoid

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> I believe that LDAP use of short names as aliases for
> OIDs is fundamentally flawed and is the root cause of
> multiple interoperability and security problems.

+1

> In regards to your specific suggestion to resolve the
> problems, I note that one might as well eliminate <descr>
> choice than prefer <numericoid> over <descr>...

+1

(at least to make an implementation of 'objectIdentifierMatch' 
(2.5.13.0) even possible.)

Ciao, Michael.