Re: Unique identifiers for LDAP attributes

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

At 11:12 AM 7/13/00 -0600, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>Though I agree with the general notion of moving toward the use of unique OIDs, there's a minor flaw with this statement.
>
>objectIdentifierFirstComponentMatch uses the OID syntax which can either be a numericoid (1.2.3.4) or the descr form (cn), so it's still usable with short names as it stands today.

But note a minor flaw in your statement.  A matchingRule should
evaluate to Undefined if the attribute value doesn't conform
to the defined attribute syntax.  With an OID in the attribute
value, the syntax is invalid, so the matchingRule is Undefined.

Kurt