Re: [schema] vs. rfc2247 replacement

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

At 06:08 AM 12/12/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>Will [schema]'s claim to define 'dc' pass IANA at all, since the
>attribute name is currently owned by someone else's RFCs?  And will the
>publication [schema] be held up while IANA resolves the ownership of the
>name?

The IANA considerations section requests the registry be updated.

>Maybe also the 'uid' attribute name, though I didn't find any definiton
>of that.  The definition in rfc1274 is of 'userid'.  The other RFCs I
>checked just refer to that RFC even though they use the 'uid' name.

uid/userid case is a bit messy.  We need to make it
clear that [Schema] provides the definitive technical
specification for this attribute type.  As I read it
now, I'm thinking the text may needs some tweaking.

Kurt