Re: RFC2253 e-mail address

[Michael Ströder <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Rundgren wrote:
> 
> Micheal,
> 2.4:
> 
>    If the AttributeValue is of a type which does not have a string
>    representation defined for it, then it is simply encoded as an
>    octothorpe character ('#' ASCII 35) followed by the hexadecimal
>    representation of each of the bytes of the BER encoding of the X.500
>    AttributeValue.  This form SHOULD be used if the AttributeType is of
>    the dotted-decimal form.
> 
> Hum,
> My colluege still think that the last line says something else!
> i.e. since the e-mail *type* must be represented as dotted decimal
> its value SHOULD be in hex rather than IA5String.  Or is this bad writing?

Might be a good idea to ask on the IETF-LDAPBIS list.

Ciao, Michael.