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Re: [ldapext] Comments: draft-chu-ldap-xordered-00.txt

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: 
It might be better for the schema to defined like:

        ( ATTRIBUTE-OID NAME 'orderedValue'
                EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
                SYNTAX ORDERED-VALUES-SYNTAX-OID
                X-ORDERED 'SIBLINGS'
                X-ORDERED-SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 )

So that to an unaware client, the syntax is something they
are not familiar with.  For an aware client, the
ORDERED-VALUES-SYNTAX-OID is some encoding of something
like:
        orderedValue ::= SEQUENCE {
                position        INTEGER OPTIONAL,
                value           OCTET STRING
        }

where value is of the X-ORDERED-SYNTAX syntax.

Then again, we could just sidestep all of this schema-extension hassle and just define a suite of new syntaxes:

   orderedInteger
   orderedDirectoryString
   orderedOctetString
   orderedDistinguishedName

and so on.

--
 -- Howard Chu
 Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
 Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
 OpenLDAP Core Team            http://www.openldap.org/project/


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