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Re: Fw: Reserved characters for a LDAP URI

To: "Wen-Cheng Wang" <wcwang@cht.com.tw>
Subject: Re: Fw: Reserved characters for a LDAP URI
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:33:33 -0800
Cc: <ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org>, <ietf-pkix@imc.org>
In-reply-to: <015b01c2ab28$edd53650$4f85900a@wcwang>
References: <OFF91A436E.B001E5FE-ON86256C98.0060DA4C-86256C98.0062317F@us.ibm.com>

At 12:46 AM 12/24/2002, Wen-Cheng Wang wrote:
>It seems that RFC 2253 requires that the comma character ',' inside
>a RDN AttributeVALue must be escaped as "\," rather than "\2C".
>I think RFC 2253 does not allow the comma character ',' be escaped
>as "\2C". 

The Section 4 ABNF clearly allows the comma to be encoded as
"\2c" or "\2C".  While one could take the Section 3 as restricting implementations, the text is generally not viewed as mandating
one particular escaping of the comma.  This has been clarified
in draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn.

Kurt

References:
- Re: Fw: Reserved characters for a LDAP URI
  - From: John McMeeking <jmcmeek@us.ibm.com>
- Re: Fw: Reserved characters for a LDAP URI
  - From: "Wen-Cheng Wang" <wcwang@cht.com.tw>

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