DN draft and X.500

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-12.txt says:

> 1.  Background and Intended Usage

>   The structure of a DN [X.501] is described in terms of ASN.1 [X.680].

Only X.500 DNs.  LDAP DNs are not, and that's the important ones in
an LDAP draft.

>   This specification assumes familiarity with X.500 [X.500], and the
>   concept of Distinguished Name [X.501][Models].

No, familiarity with Sections 1-2 of [Models] is sufficient - at least
for a reader who just implements LDAP.  If he implements a gateway
to/from X.500, he'll need to know the ASN.1 of various syntaxes too, but
he needs the references in [Syntaxes] for that, not the rest of
[Models].
We do need to know the ASN.1 of DNs and RDNs from X.500, but the ASN.1
in section 2 of this draft seems to be enough for that.

-- 
Hallvard