Re: Get rid of "suggested minimum upper bound"

[mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)]

Michael Ströder wrote:

> Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>
> > I don't think we can just replace noidlen with numericoid
> > in the AttributeTypeDescription ABNF.  That would likely cause
> > interoperability problems.
> >
> > I agree clarification is needed.  Minimally, the words
> > "maximum length" in 4.2 needs to be replaced with
> > "suggested minimum upper bound".
>
>
> Maybe what we should clarify first whether there's any known 
> implementation which believes to do anything useful with it.
>
> Comments by server and client implementors would be appreciated.


The Netscape Directory Server ignores the {length}. It does allow a 
length to be present in the schema, so some clients may be using it. I 
do not personally know of any clients that do so though.

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