hyc@symas.com writes:

It would be smarter to just standardize OID macros for each of these OIDs, the way X.500 did, and not require the humans reading these specs to memorize these numeric OIDs...

Yup. slapd/schema/syntaxes.schema? Syntax names like olsDirectoryString or just DirectoryString? (I don't know if OID macro names are a separate namespace or not.)

I don't see any straightforward way to modify our parser as you're suggesting. Unless someone else feels like jumping in, I think we should reject this ITS.

back-config could accept attributeTypes:: base64("description with line endings and comments") if it doesn't already. Personally I wouldn't write such a file anytime soon, but someone who schema via some LDAP-friendly tool might.