Re: Quoted values in string DN

Hi, Jim -

I think that "who should review this from the VSLDAP perspective" is the members of the DIF. I'm cc'ing this to them.

The definition of LDAP Certified, and the VSLDAP test suite, follows RFCs 2251, 2252, 2253, etc. Clearly we should look at updating the definition and the test suite. I would think that the appropriate point to make a change would be the point at which the ldapbis specs are formally approved as RFCs.

Do you know whether the ldapbis team has produced (or intends to produce) a summary of the changes from RFC 2251 etc?

At 17:52 18/10/2004, Jim Sermersheim wrote:

I'm told that the VSLDAP test suite requires that v3 servers parse DN values containing quoted values.

I know the string dn bis document removed Section 4 from RFC 2253. Justification is given in http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapbis/200012/msg00065.html. I have two questions:

1) can we summarize the justification, and add it to bullet #5 in Appendix B of string DN?
2) why did we reserve the need to escape double quote characters (see DQUOTE in escaped, in the ABNF)?

Thanks,

Jim

p.s. Chris, I'm not sure who should review this from the VSLDAP perspective, can you forward it to the appropriate person?

Regards,

Chris

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