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From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: NIST agreements on Search errors
Message-ID: <7937@ditmela.oz>
Date: 13 Nov 89 01:59:58 GMT
Reply-To: hans@ditmela.UUCP (Hans Eriksson)
Organization: CSIRO/DIT, Melbourne, Australia (on leave from SICS, Sweden)
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In IS 9594-3 (X.511) sec 10.2.3 it says: "The request succeeds if the
base object is located, regardless of wheather there are any
subordinates to return."

On page 11-34 in Stable Agreements, dec 1988, it says that Search
(filter) may return a number of different errors.

This seems to be a contradiction to me.

Consider the situation that a bad filter is passed (for example:
equality tested on an attribute with no equality matching rule).

Based on the Standard, if the name resolution finds the base object, then
there will be a "null" result returned (the bad filterItem evaluates
to undefined).

Based on the Agreements, an AttributeError with problem
InappropriateMatching should be returned.

Am I missing something?

/hans

p.s. Yes, we should participate in the NIST WG on directories, but...
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