Ulrich Windl wrote:

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http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4512#section-2.5

I couldn't quite read it from there: The closest match I found was: "oid = descr / numericoid", but I was talking about the "on wire" protocol of LDAP. Are there really named objects and attributes?

You really ask to be spoon-fed. [..] Is it really so hard for you to find the line "Examples of valid attribute descriptions:" in this particular section?

No, but what exactly does the example tell about the on-wire protocol?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4511#section-4.1.4

Ciao, Michael.