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Re: [ldapext] URN namespace for ldap/X.509 schema elements?

At 10:27 PM 4/24/2005, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>Because some implementations are too stupid to map '2.5.6.2' to 'country' (or vice versa).
>
>But *why* does an implementation have to map 2.5.6.2 to anything at all, if there are (as Leif said) no end-users who might want to see the string "country" (or the appropriate string in their preferred language)?  Y'all seem to be assuming that the native representation of attribute type names in implementations is the descriptors.

Because in some implementations, this is the case.  Hence,
in other implementations, if they don't map, they don't get
what they expect.  That is, asking for return of '2.5.6.2'
may not cause values of the 'country' attribute to be
returned because the server might not regard 2.5.6.2 and
'country' as being equivalent.

Kurt 


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