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Re: DIT Content Rules



How about if I add:
  DIT content rules for superclasses of the structural object class
  of an entry are not applicable to that entry.

at the end of the paragraph which starts with "An entry is governed
by"?

At 12:27 PM 10/28/2003, John McMeeking wrote:




>At least going back to X.501(1993):
>
>   The DIT content rules of superclasses of the structural object class for
>an entry do not apply to that entry.
>
>For your example, I interpret that as meaning that a DIT content rule for
>person does not apply to inetorgperson.
>
>It looks like that specific statement is missing from [models] though much
>of the text surrounding it (in X.501) is present.
>
>I think it would be appropriate to add this statement to [models].
>
>
>John  McMeeking
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>                      Michael Ströder                                                                                  
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>HI!
>
>Reviewing draft-ietf-ldapbis-models-09 I wonder whether a DIT content rule
>also applies to inherited structural object classes.
>
>Example: If I have a content rule for object class 'person' does this also
>apply to object class 'inetOrgPerson'?
>
>The implementation I'm testing with does not seem to apply the content rule
>to inherited object classes but section 4.1.6 "DIT Content Rules" is not
>very explicit on this.
>
>The current text is:
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>   For DIT entries of a particular structural object class, [..]
>
>The word "particular" might be too weak.
>
>Ciao, Michael.