Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapbis-protocol-24.txt

[Steven Legg <steven.legg@adacel.com.au>]

Hallvard,

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Steven Legg writes:
>
> > Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> >
> > > I'm curious, what's the difference (since it's a CHOICE and only one
> > > element can appear in the field)? Is it just some ASN.1 thing?
> >
> > The difference only matters if one is using PER. PER encodes an element
> > that is before the ellipsis differently from an element that is after
> > the ellipsis.
>
>
> If intermediateResponse is added after the ellipsis, and a future LDAP
> standard adds yet another LDAPMessage type, where should that be added?

After intermediateResponse. The ellipsis is placed at the end of the alternatives
in the original base definition (which I would take to be the one in RFC 2251).
Each extension thereafter is appended to the end.

Regards,
Steven