Michael Ströder wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
following up on this because some older schema files reference
'countryName' (and worked with RE23).
Howard Chu wrote:
I'm puzzled why RFC4519 drops the 'countryName' alias for this type
from the RFC2256 definition.
Me too...
It was also not in RFC 2256. But it is still listed in RFC 4519 in the
table of chapter IANA considerations for OID 2.5.4.6.
Kurt, any idea what happened here? RFC4519 Appendix A note 28 says
specifically "Changed the 'c' definition to be consistent with X.500." But
there is no explicit reference to 'c' as the name of the attribute in 1993
X.520. It strikes me that this was a gratuitous change that breaks existing
implementations, and did not fall under LDAPbis' charter to clarify existing
usage and ambiguities in the LDAPv3 spec.
X.520 only lists "countryName" as the name of this attribute. Also as Michael
points out, both 'c' and 'countryName' are in the LDAP descriptors registry
section of the IANA Considerations (section 4). It looks like the actual
registry is correct, and omitting the long names from the schema definition in
section 2 is an error. (Likewise for quite a large number of the other
attributes in section 2.)
It's also worth pointing out, if harmonization with X.500 was the real goal,
that stateOrProvinceName is also broken; in X.520 the shortname for this
attribute is just 'S' not 'st' as used in LDAP.
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Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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