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Re: String Encodings - was RE: Applicability Stmt (AS) rescinding "IESG Note" and defining "LDAPv3"



At 11:02 AM 07/05/2000 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
At 11:19 AM 7/3/00 +1000, Steven Legg wrote:
>It's a shame the LDAP string encodings for attribute values weren't defined
>by some algorithmic relationship to the ASN.1 type of the syntax, much
>like the way ASN.1 value notation is related to the type. It wouldn't
>then be necessary to define a string encoding for each new attribute
>value syntax or assertion value syntax imported from X.500, X.509, etc.
>The required string encoding would fall out naturally from the relevant
>ASN.1 type.
>
>It's never too late to start though.

You could request ;binary transfer for all attributes... :-)

Or one could stop defining these new attribute syntaxes, and make do with strings...


Bruce