Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapbis-url-07.txt

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

At 02:43 PM 11/4/2004, Steven Legg wrote:
>>>>>>     scope       = "base" / "one" / "sub"
>>>>>>     filter      = <filter from Section 4 of [Filters]>
>>>>>>                     ; See the "Escaping Using the % Method"
>>>>>>                     ; section below.
>>>>>>     extensions  = extension *(COMMA extension)
>>>>>>     extension   = [EXCLAMATION] extype [EQUALS exvalue]
>>>>>>     extype      = oid / oiddescr
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This should just be:
>>>>>        extype        = <oid from section 1.4 of [Models]>
>
>This isn't ABNF.

Technically, this is a <prose-val> [RFC 2234]:
        prose-val      =  "<" *(%x20-3D / %x3F-7E) ">"
                               ; bracketed string of SP and VCHAR
                                  without angles
                               ; prose description, to be used as
                                  last resort

But I agree that we should avoid use of <prose-val> here
and elsewhere in this grammar.

>I much prefer this:
>
>   extype = oid ; from section 1.4 of [Models]
>
>or this:
>
>   extype = oid
>
>   The <oid> rule is defined in [Models].