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Re: Get rid of "suggested minimum upper bound"

To: michael@stroeder.com
Subject: Re: Get rid of "suggested minimum upper bound"
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:38:22 -0800
Cc: ietf-ldapbis <ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <3C8CD748.30902@stroeder.com>
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At 08:11 AM 2002-03-11, 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.

Lots of defined schema, using this ABNF, contains suggested
minimum upper bounds.  A large number of client and server
implementations support updating this schema via the protocol.
Changing the ABNF would require all these implementations
refuse to accept this defined schema.  That would be bad thing.

Kurt

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