RE: WG last call on "duplicate entries"

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

At 09:33 AM 3/26/01 +0100, Dave Watts wrote:
>I have a minor query about draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-dupent-06.txt.
>
>Section 4.1.1 contains the following paragraph.
>
>   <snip>
>
>   While processing a search request, a server implementation examines
>   this list.  If a specified attribute or attribute subtype exists in
>   an entry to be returned by search, and that attribute holds multiple
>   values, the server treats the entry as if it were multiple,
>   duplicate entries -- the specified attributes each holding a single,
>   unique value from the original set of values of that attribute.
>
>   <snip>

I would suggest a minor editorial change.
s/attribute or attribute subtype/attribute or its subtype/

>When you talk about attribute subtypes, are you thinking of:
>- subtyping via attribute options (eg 'cn;lang-en' is a subtype of 'cn')
>- subtyping via attribute hierarchy (eg 'cn' is a subtype of 'name')
>- both?

I believe this sentence is the result of prior list discussion.  The
answer is both.  This is consistent with how requested attributes in
search operations are handled in LDAP/X.500.