RE: REVISED protocol review notes [LONG]

["Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>]

I don't know what version of ASN.1 LDAPv3 should require. For X.500 it's the 1993 version, isn't it? But I don't remember any statement about ASN.1. I wouldn't like the ASN.1 issue to create a moving target.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:owner-ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Jim Sermersheim
Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 01:30
To: steven.legg@adacel.com.au
Cc: ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org; Kurt@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: REVISED protocol review notes [LONG]

>>> Steven Legg <steven.legg@adacel.com.au> 10/22/03 1:17:00 AM >>>
>Yes, but you could also do this:
>
>PartialAttribute ::= SEQUENCE {
>type AttributeDescription,
>vals SET OF AttributeValue }
>
>Attribute ::= PartialAttribute(WITH COMPONENTS {..., vals (SIZE(1..MAX))})

Wow. This looks cool... but having never seen such a thing, I had to do a double take. What do others think about using this kind of definition?

>You could also in-line the right hand side of the Attribute assignment
>statement everywhere Attribute is needed and then rename PartialAttribute
>to just Attribute.

True, it's only used in one place right now (AttributeList)

>By the way, are you intending to put identifiers into each of
>the SET OF and SEQUENCE OF notations ? I so, do you want me to
>make some appropriate suggestions ?

I think so, but I wanted to ping the list one more time about this before deciding.

 

Jim