Re: objectIdentifierMatch on ambiguous name

[Mark Wahl <Mark.Wahl@sun.com>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> "bar" are equal or not.  However, the implementation has
> no knowledge of which mapping table, or which subset of
> a table, of short names to numeric oids applies; the question
> of whether "foo" is equal to "bar" is, without context,
> Undefined.

Common practice for LDAPv3 servers though is to support queries of 
the form (objectClass=person), and many clients today use objectClass
equality matching with non-numeric OIDs.  2252 section 8.1 
only said the match was Undefined if the server did not recognize
the OID.  

Mark Wahl
Sun Microsystems Inc.