Re: Get rid of "suggested minimum upper bound"

[Ludovic Poitou <ludovic.poitou@Sun.com>]

Sun Directory Services 3.1 used to recognise the "maximum length" and verified
that the attribute value wasn't bigger than that length.

I speak in the past as Sun DS 3.1 is still used by customers but we're not
doing further developments.

Ludovic.

Michael Ströder wrote:

> 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.

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Ludovic Poitou
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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