{"draft":"draft-legg-ldap-binary-04","doc_id":"RFC4522","title":"Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The Binary Encoding Option","authors":["S. Legg"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"8","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"Each attribute stored in\r\na Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory\r\nhas a defined syntax (i.e., data type).\r\nA syntax definition specifies how attribute values\r\nconforming to the syntax are\r\nnormally represented when transferred in LDAP operations.\r\nThis representation is referred to as the LDAP\\-specific encoding\r\nto distinguish it from other methods of encoding attribute values.\r\nThis document defines an attribute option, the binary option,\r\nthat can be used to specify that the associated attribute values are\r\ninstead encoded according to the Basic Encoding Rules (BER)\r\nused by X.500 directories.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"June 2006","keywords":["ber","ldap-specific encoding"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4522","errata_url":null}