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

[Stephen Kent <kent@xxxxxxx>]

At 22:43 +1200 7/24/03, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> =?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.

Last year we tested IE and Netscape clients and they processed 
multi-valued, terminal RDNs with no problems.  It also was not a 
problem for Apache web servers.  I did not test IIS or other servers 
at the time. Anyway, apparently the concern is not a client side 
issue for these very (most?) widely deployed products. I think David 
indicated that he had been told it was a server issue of some sort 
for MS.

Steve