Re: LDAPprep

[Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>]

At 1:04 PM -0700 5/25/06, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>As there were no objections to this change voiced on this
>list, or to me otherwise, I will initiate the process to
>correct this RFC-to-be.
>
>I will ask the RFC-Editor to make the change while clearly
>indicating that nature of the change requires approval of
>our AD.  I will advise the AD of my opinion that no
>additional IETF (including IESG and WG) review is necessary.
>
>Regards, Kurt

I agree that this change can be made without the need for
an additional run through the IESG; if someone has serious
heartburn with that, please say so as soon as possible,
			regards,
				Ted Hardie





>At 12:44 PM 5/4/2006, you wrote:
>>I was a little to quick in pressing "Send".
>>Fixing a couple of typos, the replacement text would be:
>>
>>  For input strings which are attribute values or non-substring
>>  assertion values:  If the input string contains no non-space   
>>  character, then the output is exactly two SPACEs.   Otherwise (the
>>  input string contains at least one non-space character) then the
>>  string is modified such that the string starts with exactly one space
>>  character, ends with exactly one SPACE character, and that any inner
>>  (non-empty) sequence of space characters is replaced with exactly two
>>  SPACE characters.  For instance, the input strings                
>>  "foo<SPACE>bar<SPACE><SPACE>", results in the output
>>  "<SPACE>foo<SPACE><SPACE>bar<SPACE>".
>>
>>  For input strings which are substring assertion values: If the string
>>  being prepared contains no non-space characters, then the output
>>  string is exactly one SPACE.  Otherwise, the following steps are
>>  taken:
>>    - If the input string is an initial substring, it is modified to
>>      start with exactly one SPACE character;
>>    - If the input string is an initial or an any substring which ends
>>      in one or more space characters, it is modified to end with      
>>      exactly one SPACE character;
>>    - If the input string is an any or a final substring which starts in
>>      one or more space characters, it is modified to start with exactly
>>      one SPACE character; and
>>    - If the input string is a final substring, it is modified to end
>>      with exactly one SPACE character.
>>  For instance, for the input string "foo<SPACE>bar<SPACE><SPACE>" as an
>>  initial substring, the output would be
>>  "<SPACE>foo<SPACE><SPACE>bar<SPACE>".  As an any or final substring,
>>  the same input would result in "foo<SPACE>bar<SPACE>".
>>
>>