Re: syntaxes: empty string values

[Steven Legg <steven.legg@eb2bcom.com>]

Hallvard,

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Is there anything left to decide which can affect [syntaxes] related to
> the 'Empty IA5String' and 'LDAPprep: mapping of " " values' discussions
> last year?  I think I ran out of steam after a while:-)

I think it's all sorted out now.

> The issue I remember was if [Syntaxes] must be modified to let matching
> rules accept empty strings even when that's invalid per the string
> syntax in question.  Either if strprep maps " " to "", or in relation
> to component matching.

The latest LDAPprep draft transforms empty strings and strings containing
only spaces into a pair of spaces (a single space for substrings), so
"" and " " will match. Empty input strings are allowed.

Regards,
Steven