Re: attribute textual names and/or OIDs in LDAP protocol ?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 03:31 PM 4/27/00 -0700, sanjay jain wrote: 
>Could somebody please clarify what  an LDAP server should 
>expect in the protocol as far as attribute names are concerned 
>when the server knows both the textual name and the OID for 
>an attribute ? 

An LDAPv3 server should be able to accept recognize an attribute
type by its OID or any of its NAMEs.  The same should not be
expected from an LDAPv2 server... they often OID-less.

>It is clear from RFC 2251 (section 4.1.4) that the server should
>return the textual name for such an attribute in the search result. 

s/the textual name/a textual name/

That is, an attribute type can have one or more textual names.
The server should one of the them (assuming it knows the names).