RE: ASN.1 definitions in draft-ietf-ldapbis-syntaxes-01.txt

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

At 03:18 PM 2002-03-04, Steven Legg wrote:
>Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>> Also, there are many multipart syntaxes that lack an ASN.1 definition,
>> do we plan to define the ASN.1 for these?
>
>In reviewing the LDAP syntaxes some time ago I found ASN.1 type
>definitions for all but three syntaxes. These were:
>
>        LDAP Syntax Description - 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.54
>        LDAP Schema Definition  - 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.56
>        LDAP Schema Description - 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.57

Only the first is defined for use in LDAP by RFC 2252 [in
section 6].  The others are defined elsewhere.  That is, the
table contains a list of syntaxes defined 'thus far', it is
not their specification.

Only the syntaxes defined in RFC 2252, Section 6 and RFC 2256,
Section 6 should be described in RFC 2252bis.  The specification
of these syntaxes should be clarified as to their ASN.1 data type
definition, but no new syntaxes can be added.

Kurt