Re: (ITS#4025) Ppolicy overlay: objectIdentifierMatch rule doesn't understand descriptions

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 09:41 AM 9/28/2005, hyc@symas.com wrote:
>While there is conceptually a single OID namespace, it 
>is not implemented as a single namespace inside slapd. 

This is because there is not a single descriptor name
space.  One can have a 'foo' objectClass and a 'foo'
attributeType, both referring to different OIDs.
IIRC, there is even a case of duplicate descriptor use
in the LDAP RFCs...

Kurt