Subject: RE: Syntax OIDs, RFC2252

From: Andrew Probert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:56:18 +1000

OIDs have the taxonomy of the authorities that issued the OID so one can
find that 'elsewhere' i.e. it contains the prefix to the organisation that
issued the attribute and defined its syntax.

LDAP converts these OID's to North American string representations e.g.
2.5.4.4 has the 
label Surname issued by joint ISO-CCITT.DirectoryStandard.Attribute.4, but
if one worked 
with the OID's alone, in the client you could label recevied attribute as
Senior i.e. multilingual.

Andrew Probert
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hallvard B Furuseth [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 6:48 AM
To: Howard Chu
Cc: Mark Wahl; ietf-ldapext
Subject: RE: Syntax OIDs, RFC2252

Howard Chu writes:
> 
> The whole motivation for publishing schema in the directory is so that
> nobody has to look "elsewhere" before they can do useful work with a piece
> of information. I am utterly amazed at your statement.

For syntaxes (and matching rules), one has to look "elsewhere" anyway.

-- 
Hallvard