RE: Syntax OIDs, RFC2252

[Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> From: Hallvard B Furuseth [mailto:h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no]

> > Essentially, if the information was interesting enough to have been
> > documented on paper (the table on page 8 of RFC 2252), it ought to
> > have been worth putting out on the wire.  Either the information is
> > useful, and should be provided, or it's totally unimportant, and
> > should be completely deleted. I'm not asking for the latter!
>
> Depends on who is the target audience of that piece of information.
> It makes sense the way it is if it's mostly provided for implementors:
> Whoever defines a syntax should of course describe it.  When someone
> implements some other syntax, they'll put that information elsewhere.

The whole motivation for publishing schema in the directory is so that
nobody has to look "elsewhere" before they can do useful work with a piece
of information. I am utterly amazed at your statement.