On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:47:48PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > wouter@country:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b'cn=Subschema' -x -s base '(objectClass=*)' attributeTypes | grep gender > > > attributeTypes: ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.9586.100.4.2.30 NAME 'gender' DESC 'ISO 5218 rep > > > resentation of human gender' EQUALITY integerMatch SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.11 > > > > > In other words, if you want to see that changed, take it up with ISO. > > > No, changing it unilaterally in Debian won't help, either; In LDAP, a > > > field of a specific name always (*always*) has a certain syntax; > > > breaking that would break software that expects this particular field to > > > be in that particular syntax. > > > > That's not completely true; you could have an attribute type named 'gender' > > with a different OID and different syntax/semantics, you just wouldn't be > > able to use it on an LDAP server which also needed the use of the ISO > > attribute type or of any object classes that are defined to use the ISO > > attribute. > > > > But if all of our Japanese, Chinese, Greek Orthodox, Muslim, and French > > Revolutionary developers can tolerate having to enter their birthdates using > > the Gregorian calendar, I think we'll be able to make do with an opt-in > > binary gender classification too. > Hi Steve, > I have yet to see a use case for this LDAP item. Is it strictly for a > male/femaie survey that other FLOSS projects will join? Does this mean > that people who dont self-identify as male or female are just not > counted? According to some stats that could be 100 people. Is there any > ISO standard that is inclusive of those uncounted people? > cheers, I found a document for DICOM that includes more options cheers, Kev [0] http://medical.nema.org/Dicom/CP/CPack_23/cp373_lb.pdf -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | 'under construction' | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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