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

["Steven Legg" <steven.legg@adacel.com.au>]

Kurt,

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 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.

Okay. LDAP Syntax Description is the only applicable syntax for
which we don't have a corresponding ASN.1 type.

> The specification
> of these syntaxes should be clarified as to their ASN.1 data type
> definition, but no new syntaxes can be added.

Are you for or against adding an ASN.1 type definition for
LDAP Syntax Description to RFC2252bis ?

Regards,
Steven