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Alex Karasulu

2005-10-06, 5:45 pm

Jérôme Baumgarten wrote:

> RFC 2253 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String
> Representation of Distinguished Names
>
> Section "3. Parsing a String back to a Distinguished Name" says the
> following :
>
>distinguishedName = [name] ; may be empty string
>
>name = name-component *("," name-component)
>
>name-component = attributeTypeAndValue *("+" attributeTypeAndValue)
>
>
>attributeTypeAndValue = attributeType "=" attributeValue
>
> but i do not know if you can use several times the same attributeType,
> might be in the RFC but (sorry) I do not have the time to read through
> the full RFC.


If there is no clear message that says types cannot be equal in ...

name = name-component *("," name-component)


then I think its allow. There are some revision documents from the LDAPBIS working
group that might mention something. Here is the homepage for the charter:

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ldapbis-charter.html

Alex


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