RFC - 4517

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Syntaxes and Matching Rules

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc4517.txt
Authors:	S. Legg [eB2Bcom]
Date:	June 2006
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Obsoletes:
RFC-2256	A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 (Obsoleted by RFC-4523prop, RFC-4519prop, RFC-4512prop, RFC-4510prop, RFC-4517prop) (Updated by RFC-3377)
RFC-2252	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions (Obsoleted by RFC-4523prop, RFC-4512prop, RFC-4510prop, RFC-4517prop) (Updated by RFC-3377)

Updates:
RFC-3698prop	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Additional Matching Rules (Updated by RFC-4517prop)

Referred by:	13 RFC
Refers to:	21 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).

Abstract

Each attribute stored in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory, whose values may be transferred in the LDAP protocol, has a defined syntax that constrains the structure and format of its values. The comparison semantics for values of a syntax are not part of the syntax definition but are instead provided through separately defined matching rules. Matching rules specify an argument, an assertion value, which also has a defined syntax. This document defines a base set of syntaxes and matching rules for use in defining attributes for LDAP directories.

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