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I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapext-lang-01.txt
NOTE: This announcement is being re-sent with a correction made.
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the LDAP Extension Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Use of Language Codes in LDAP
Author(s) : T. Howes, M. Wahl
Filename : draft-ietf-ldapext-lang-01.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 17-Jul-98
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [1] provides a means for
clients to interrogate and modify information stored in a distributed
directory system. The information in the directory is maintained as
attributes [2] of entries. Most of these attributes have syntaxes
which are human-readable strings, and it is desirable to be able to
indicate the natural language associated with attribute values.
This document describes how language codes [3] are carried in LDAP
and are to be interpreted by LDAP servers. All implementations MUST
be prepared to accept language codes in the LDAP protocols. Servers
may or may not be capable of storing attributes with language codes
in the directory. This document does not specify how to determine
whether particular attributes can or cannot have language codes.
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