1 INTERNET-DRAFT Michael P. Armijo
2 Status: Informational Microsoft Corporation
7 Active Directory Syntaxes
8 draft-armijo-ldap-syntax-00.txt
11 1. Status of this Memo
14 This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify
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34 The purpose of this document is to inform the Internet community of LDAP
35 syntaxes available in the Windows NT Active Directory. These syntaxes provide
36 additional functionality to the Active Directory.
41 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD",
42 "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be
43 interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
48 CaseIgnoreString: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.905
49 Encoded as a Printable String (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.44)
52 OR-Name: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.1221
54 ORName = DN | "X400:" ORaddress "#X500:" DN | "X400:"ORaddress
55 DN = normally encoded rfc 1779 name
56 ORaddress = some string encoding for OR addresses.
58 Note that an unescaped # character must not be legal in this encoding.
59 This is necessary to be able to identify where the #X500 starts if the
60 middle choice of the encoding is chosen.
63 DNWithOctetString: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.903
65 DNWithOctetString = OctetTag ':' Count ':' OctetString ':' DN
67 Count = positive decimal number, counting number of encoded characters
69 OctetString = [EncodedByte]* // Note: the number of characters in the
70 string encoding of the OctetString is Count.
71 EncodedByte = [0-9 | a-f | A-F] [0-9 | a-f | A-F]
72 DN = <normal string encoding of a DN>
74 As an example, the string encoding of the combination of 0x74 0x65 0x73
75 0x74 and DC=Microsoft,DC=Com is
77 B:8:74657374:DC=Microsoft,DC=Com
80 DNWithString: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.904
82 DNWithString = StringTag ':' Count ':' String ':' DN
84 Count = positive decimal number, counting number of bytes in String
85 String = <normally encoded (i.e. UTF8 for V3) string> // Note: the number
86 of bytes in the string encoding of the String is Count.
88 DN = <normal string encoding of a DN>
90 As an example, the string encoding of the combination of "test" and
91 DC=Microsoft,DC=Com is
93 B:4:test:DC=Microsoft,DC=Com
95 As an example, the string encoding of the combination of XYZ (where X, Y,
96 and Z all have two byte UTF-8 encodings) and DC=Microsoft,DC=Com is
98 B:6:XYZ:DC=Microsoft,DC=Com
100 Note: Characters with multibyte UTF-8 encodings contribute more than one to the count
103 Large-Integer: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.906
104 Encoded as an Integer (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.27), but guaranteed
105 to support 64 bit numbers.
108 Object-Security-Descriptor: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.907
109 Encoded as an Octet-String (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.40)
115 M. Wahl, T. Howes, S. Kille, "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
116 (v3)", RFC 2251, December 1997. 1997.
119 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels,"
120 RFC 2119, Harvard University, March 1997.
132 micharm@microsoft.com