Re: Revised Matched Values Draft

[Bruce Greenblatt <bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com>]

At 09:15 AM 7/12/2000 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>At 06:01 PM 7/11/00 -0700, Bruce Greenblatt wrote:
>>I'll voice the same reservations this time that I voiced last time.
>>
>>Use of this control solves a problem that normally exists due to poor
schema and DIT design.
>
>X.500 is designed to support multiple valued attributes.  In numerous
>cases it makes good sense for a given attribute to have many
>(hundreds, thousands, more?).  X.500 recognized this and, to aid
[snip]

Kurt,

I disagree (obviously).  Just because an implementation allows you to do
something, doesn't mean that it was designed to support it or that is even
a good idea.  For example, just because you can put 25 college students in
a Volkswagen Beetle doesn't make it a good idea, or an indication that the
car's designers had that in mind when they first designed the car.

Bruce
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