Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ldap-schema-00.txt

["Steve Fisher" <s.a.fisher@btinternet.com>]

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From: "David Chadwick" <d.w.chadwick@salford.ac.uk>
To: <ietf-ldapext@netscape.com>; "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com>
Sent: 14 July 2000 13:15
Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ldap-schema-00.txt


>
> >You may be able
> > to have 'magic' attributes that have order-dependent values, but this
> > is in conflict with the X.500 standard.
>
> Actually X.500(97) has a potential solution for this in the concept of
> attribute value contexts. But no-one to my knowledge has
> implemented contexts, and you would still have the management
> overhead of keeping the contexts on the whole package of
> attributes in sync.

Does anybody know whether there are any plans for any X.500/LDAP supplier to
implement contexts?

Steve Fisher

Steve Fisher
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