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Re: Attribute Name Length Bounds
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> For example, if the community were to decode that registration
> of portions of the name space can be delegated to owners of
> domains without involving IANA actions, we'd could publish
> a BCP allowing descriptors like
> COM-EXAMPLE-ORGANIZATIONALUNIT-MY-PERSONAL-USER-APPLICATION-ATTRIBUTE
> to be used in naming attribute types.
And let me add that this is not at all a far-fetched notion. I'm engaged
in making up some conventions for representing attribute-type descriptors
as URNs (for use in XML context), with a result that looks a lot like the
above. (And why not use urn:oid, you ask? Don't ask ...)
- RL "Bob"