Re: Get rid of "suggested minimum upper bound"

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 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, you are already one step further with thinking about how to tweak the 
standard documents.

Basically I asked for feedback of implementors. If anyone relies on the 
"suggested minimum upper bound" (formerly known as "maximum length" ;-) and 
how implementations are interpreting the meaning of it.

Afterwards (or parallel) we can discuss the ABNF off course.

Ciao, Michael.