Re: Microsoft and multi-valued RDNs (was: draft minutes)

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Stephen Kent wrote:
>> LDAP Documents:
>> [..]
>> Biggest issue on the table for the schema document is that
>> Microsoft says it will not support multi-valued attributes (e.g., a
>> terminal RDN that is a set consisting of a common name and a serial
>> number).
>
>Could someone please elaborate on this?

Using multi-valued RDNs is very risky because it breaks a lot of software (not
just Microsoft's stuff).

Elaborate enough?

Peter.