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Re: reframing the Empty IA5 string discussion

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: 
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.)


I prefer 1. I consider the fact that IA5String does not have
the same size-restriction as DirectoryString a bug. Moreover
allowing non-empty string is going to break clients en masse.

	MVH leifj