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Re: RFC 2596 questions

At 04:08 PM 10/21/00 +0100, David Chadwick wrote:
>> The example David gives below shows a subtype inheriting from multiple
>> supertypes. As of yet, I believe that this is illegal in X.500/LDAP
>
>It might be illegal in LDAP but it is not illegal in X.501.

?????

The X.501(93~97) AttributeTypeDescription appears to allow
only one 'derivation'... that is, an attribute type can
have zero or one direct supertypes.

(I'm actually looking at a draft of the 97 spec)