Re: Case sensitivity summary

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:00:27PM +0000, Bannister, Mark wrote:

> > We are not going to define a standard that forces everyone to do everything 'right' while providing
> > interworking of differing systems. It is simply not possible.
> 
> Yes it *is* possible.  You take the POSIX approach and do not attempt to interpret case.  You do
> byte-by-byte comparisons.

Yes that works perfectly. IFF you are only considering Unix-like
systems. Most LDAP deployments at least aspire to be useful for a wider
range of client systems.

[ IFF == If and only if ]

Andrew
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