IMO this example clearly shows that the {} approach is a hack limited to certain use-cases (e.g. ACLs etc. in back-config).Perhaps valsort could return weights instead of stripping them off when the RFC 3296 manageDSAit control is used.
As Bill noted, this is already possible if you supply the VALSORT control. No need to mess with manageDSAit.
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