It seems to me that having no type byte and having all values be represented
by text is the simplest solution.
Bob Herriot
> From paulmo@microsoft.com Sun Jun 8 17:28:15 1997
>
>
> Type byte:
> This was suggested to me already. I am neutral on the subject. I did not
> make the change becuase it was not discussed in San Diego. There are a
> few question I have on it which I would like to see discussed before
> finalising.
>
> >
> > Section 8. You define several different representations for attribute
> > values: text, binary integers, binary boolean, binary keywords. But
> > you don't include a field for value's type. This makes is hard for
> > a client to know how to interpret and unknown attribute. I think
> > the right solution is to keep the IPP solution where all values are
> > text. Alternatively, we could all agree to add a one byte type field
> > just before the value's length field.
> >