Re: new draft of DSMLv2 core

[Christine Tomlinson <chris.tomlinson@sun.com>]

Jeff Parham wrote:

> 1) simplified definitions of Control and Extended Ops to include
> references out to any external XML chunks - why imply ASN.1 BER encoding
> of common controls?
> [Jeff Parham] Ultimately these fields have to be BER encoded before they
> can be represented using LDAP.  How are you proposing that an arbitrary
> piece of XML be BER-encoded?
>

RFC 2251 Section 4.1.2 does not specify that the contents of the
controlValue OCTET STRING must be themselves an ASN.1 BER encoded value.
Some controls have been defined where the contents of the controlValue are
an arbitrary text string.

ciao,
Christine