Re: short names (descriptors) proposal

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

At 06:00 AM 2002-11-04, Michael Ströder wrote:
>Timothy Hahn wrote:
>>Regarding the use of the same name for an attribute type and an object
>>class - I agree that it should be "discouraged".  I don't think the
>>specifications need to explicitly DIS-allow it.
>
>Maybe it would be helpful for application developers if the standard document explicitly states that an attribute type and an object class MAY have the same name although discouraged. I had to learn it the hard way...

How about adding the following to 6.2: 
  Note: While discouraged, one name may (for historical reasons)
  be an alias for multiple OIDs each referring to a different kind
  of schema element.  That is, there may be an objectClass 'fubar'
  and an attributeType 'fubar'.