Re: String Encodings - was RE: Applicability Stmt (AS) rescinding "IESG Note" and defining "LDAPv3"

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 12:42 PM 7/5/00 -0700, Bruce Greenblatt wrote:
>At 11:02 AM 07/05/2000 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>At 11:19 AM 7/3/00 +1000, Steven Legg wrote:
>>>It's a shame the LDAP string encodings for attribute values weren't defined
>>>by some algorithmic relationship to the ASN.1 type of the syntax, much
>>>like the way ASN.1 value notation is related to the type. It wouldn't
>>>then be necessary to define a string encoding for each new attribute
>>>value syntax or assertion value syntax imported from X.500, X.509, etc.
>>>The required string encoding would fall out naturally from the relevant
>>>ASN.1 type.
>>>
>>>It's never too late to start though.
>>
>>You could request ;binary transfer for all attributes...  :-)
>
>Or one could stop defining these new attribute syntaxes, and make do with strings...

And treat attributes as blobs, sure, why not?