Re: draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-03.txt

[John McMeeking <jmcmeek@us.ibm.com>]

Kurt - thanks for the memory refresh.

The original comments addressed binary data containing octets greater than
0x7f.  These octets in an UTF-8 encoded string should not require escaping.
Perhaps:

   The <valueencoding> rule provides that the octets that represent the
   ASCII characters "*" (ASCII 0x2a), "(" (ASCII 0x28), ")" (ASCII
   0x29), "\" (ASCII 0x5c), NUL (ASCII 0x00) are represented as a
   backslash "\" (ASCII 0x5c) followed by the two hexadecimal digits
   representing the value of the encoded octet. Octets greater than 0x7f
   that are not part of an UTF-8 encoded string are similarly escaped.

Or something like that.


John  McMeeking



                                                                                                                           
                      "Kurt D. Zeilenga"                                                                                   
                      <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>         To:       mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)                                
                      Sent by:                    cc:       Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>,                
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                      11/15/2002 02:16 PM                                                                                  
                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                           



At 06:38 AM 2002-11-15, Mark C Smith wrote:
>Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>Why was section 6 "String Search Filter Definition" changed to
>>say that "all octets greater than 0x7f" must be escaped?
>>Shouldn't that at least be "MUST" esacpe them when generating filters,
>>but SHOULD (or MAY) recognize them unescaped, for backwards
>>compatibility?
>
>That change was the result of working group last call comments made by
Steven Legg (but I am the one who wrote the text).

So that everyone change refresh their memory...

Steven's comment:
  http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapbis/200105/msg00027.html

and Mark's subsequent reply:
  http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapbis/200106/msg00002.html

and last call summary:
  http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapbis/200106/msg00003.html

Kurt