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Re: reframing the Empty IA5 string discussion



Not being an expert at LDAPprep or the reasons why Directory Strings have the whitespace and min 1 rules they do, I prefer 2A.

>>> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> 11/10/04 9:41:29 PM >>>
I see that there are few reasonable options here:
1) IA5 strings precludes zero-length values
2) IA5 strings allows zero-length values
2A) a zero-length values only matches a zero-length value
2B) a zero-length value matches " " (and all values
equivalent to " ").

I prefer 1 over 2A over 2B (see prior posts for why).

(Regardless of the choice LDAPprep can and should be designed
to be idempotent.)