Re: bitStringNormalize() vs. draft-ietf-ldapbis-syntaxes-04.txt

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

At 06:22 AM 1/2/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>servers/slapd/schema_init.c:bitStringNormalize() ignores initial zeroes
>in a bit string and converts ''B to '0'B.  OTOH, the Syntaxes draft
>(5.2.1 bitStringMatch) says that all bits are significant.  Which is
>right?

X.520(93):
  The (bitStringMatch) rule returns TRUE if the attribute value has the same number of
  bits as the presented value and the bits match on a bitwise basis.

So, I'd say the LDAPBIS draft is correct.