ldap v3 attribute descriptions

[David Gersic]

>>> On 1/10/2014 at 11:12 AM, "Mark K. Miller" <max at psu.edu> wrote: 

> I'm no LDAP expert, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, 
> but as it's being explained to me, ldap v3 has something called attribute 
> descriptions.

I think you're being led astray. A quick read of (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hunt-scim-directory-00)  seems to say that SCIM has this, and they're attempting to sort of map it in to an LDAPv3 compatible name space.


> For example, one attribute I've had defined in my attribute-resolver.xml 
> for a long time now is "mail".  However, when I try to use an LDAP 
> directory that now includes the "x-scim-primary-true" attribute 
> description for mail, the mail attribute doesn't work any more.  If I 
> change it to be the "mail;x-scim-primary-true" attribute, it works again. 

That seems to be correct, based on the draft cited above.