Re: Escaping within distinguished names: RFC 2253

[Mark Wahl <M.Wahl@INNOSOFT.COM>]

> One ambiguity is in Section 4, where it states that the ','
> separator may have whitespace present on either side of it.

> 1.  What is the precise meaning of "whitespace" as used here?

ASCII 32.

   Implementations MUST allow for space (' ' ASCII 32) characters to be
   present between name-component and ',', between attributeTypeAndValue
   and '+', between attributeType and '=', and between '=' and
   attributeValue.  These space characters are ignored when parsing.

> 2.  Section 2.4 allows the '=' character to appear in a value
>     unescaped.  For example:

I agree the list of characters in section 2 is insufficient and the 
next revision of this document will expand them to match the requirements
of the BNF.

Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
Innosoft International, Inc.