Re: objectIdentifier Macros?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> <quote who="Howard Chu">
> > Gavin Henry wrote:
> > > Evening all,
> > >
> > > Are OID Macros specific to slapd?
> > They're a feature of X.500 that was lost in the translation to LDAP. I
> > implemented them for OpenLDAP and as far as I know they're unique to
> > OpenLDAP.
> > I messed with them a bit; in X.500 specs they still just use dots as
> > separators but I found that too ambiguous for parsing, so I used colons.
>
> Ah, thought so. So when doing a schema that *could* be used amoungst other
> vendors, just use the hard way...
>
> OK, thanks.

I'd rethink that. LDAP tries to take on a life of its own but it's still only 
an access protocol for connecting to an X.500 service. It's still based on the 
X.500 data model. Since OID macros are a valid construct in X.500 schemas, I 
use them in my specs. (E.g. http://highlandsun.com/hyc/drafts/)
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