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Re: attribute length restrictions

There is some ambiguity in this regard. The last paragraph of RFC 2252, 4.2, says:

  This document refines the schema description of X.501 by requiring
   that the syntax field in an AttributeTypeDescription be a string
   representation of an OBJECT IDENTIFIER for the LDAP string syntax
   definition, and an optional indication of the maximum length of a
   value of this attribute (defined in section 4.3.2).

Steve

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> At 09:58 AM 2001-08-27, Norbert Klasen wrote:
> >it seems there is a mismatch between length restrictions for standard attribute types as specified in X.520v3 and LDAPv3:
>
> In LDAPv3, the len value is a "suggested upper minimum bound", not
> a maximum length restriction.  See last paragraph of RFC 2252, 4.3.2.
>
> Kurt