diff --git a/include/lber.h b/include/lber.h
index 1696fe8c9a93772dfd08823f8ab130732fd49649..559f43b9e98e3715bcc236300e355265892f8080 100644
--- a/include/lber.h
+++ b/include/lber.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ LDAP_BEGIN_DECL
  */
 #define LBER_ERROR		0xffffffffL
 #define LBER_DEFAULT		0xffffffffL
-#define LBER_END_SEQORSET	0xfffffffeL
+/* #define LBER_END_SEQORSET	0xfffffffeL *//* no part of LDAP C-API */
 
 /* general BER types we know about */
 #define LBER_BOOLEAN		0x01L
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ LDAP_F void ber_init_w_nullc LDAP_P(( BerElement *ber, int options ));
 LDAP_F void ber_reset LDAP_P(( BerElement *ber, int was_writing ));
 
 /*
- * LDAPv3 routines (not yet implemented)
+ * LDAP draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-01 routines
  */
 LDAP_F BerElement *ber_init LDAP_P(( struct berval *bv ));
 LDAP_F int ber_flatten LDAP_P(( BerElement *ber, struct berval **bvPtr ));
diff --git a/libraries/liblber/decode.c b/libraries/liblber/decode.c
index c36ab991be841a8a9e45b492c0a10f037e74a1ba..4a15d47a38b111f326ce57f37defedb8b97a4934 100644
--- a/libraries/liblber/decode.c
+++ b/libraries/liblber/decode.c
@@ -344,7 +344,11 @@ ber_first_element( BerElement *ber, unsigned long *len, char **last )
 	*last = ber->ber_ptr + *len;
 
 	if ( *last == ber->ber_ptr ) {
+#ifdef LBER_END_SEQORSET 
+		return( LBER_END_SEQORSET );
+#else
 		return( LBER_DEFAULT );
+#endif
 	}
 
 	return( ber_peek_tag( ber, len ) );
@@ -354,7 +358,11 @@ unsigned long
 ber_next_element( BerElement *ber, unsigned long *len, char *last )
 {
 	if ( ber->ber_ptr == last ) {
+#ifdef LBER_END_SEQORSET 
+		return( LBER_END_SEQORSET );
+#else
 		return( LBER_DEFAULT );
+#endif
 	}
 
 	return( ber_peek_tag( ber, len ) );
@@ -462,8 +470,13 @@ va_dcl
 			*sss = NULL;
 			j = 0;
 			for ( tag = ber_first_element( ber, &len, &last );
-			    tag != LBER_DEFAULT && rc != LBER_DEFAULT;
-			    tag = ber_next_element( ber, &len, last ) ) {
+			    tag != LBER_DEFAULT && 
+#ifdef LDAP_END_SEQORSET
+					tag != LBER_END_SEQORSET &&
+#endif
+					rc != LBER_DEFAULT;
+			    tag = ber_next_element( ber, &len, last ) )
+			{
 				if ( *sss == NULL ) {
 					*sss = (char **) malloc(
 					    2 * sizeof(char *) );
@@ -474,6 +487,13 @@ va_dcl
 				rc = ber_get_stringa( ber, &((*sss)[j]) );
 				j++;
 			}
+#ifdef LDAP_END_SEQORSET
+			if (rc != LBER_DEFAULT && 
+				tag != LBER_END_SEQORSET )
+			{
+				rc = LBER_DEFAULT;
+			}
+#endif
 			if ( j > 0 )
 				(*sss)[j] = NULL;
 			break;
@@ -483,8 +503,13 @@ va_dcl
 			*bv = NULL;
 			j = 0;
 			for ( tag = ber_first_element( ber, &len, &last );
-			    tag != LBER_DEFAULT && rc != LBER_DEFAULT;
-			    tag = ber_next_element( ber, &len, last ) ) {
+			    tag != LBER_DEFAULT && 
+#ifdef LDAP_END_SEQORSET
+					tag != LBER_END_SEQORSET &&
+#endif
+					rc != LBER_DEFAULT;
+			    tag = ber_next_element( ber, &len, last ) )
+			{
 				if ( *bv == NULL ) {
 					*bv = (struct berval **) malloc(
 					    2 * sizeof(struct berval *) );
@@ -495,6 +520,13 @@ va_dcl
 				rc = ber_get_stringal( ber, &((*bv)[j]) );
 				j++;
 			}
+#ifdef LDAP_END_SEQORSET
+			if (rc != LBER_DEFAULT && 
+				tag != LBER_END_SEQORSET )
+			{
+				rc = LBER_DEFAULT;
+			}
+#endif
 			if ( j > 0 )
 				(*bv)[j] = NULL;
 			break;
@@ -532,6 +564,9 @@ va_dcl
 void
 ber_bvfree( struct berval *bv )
 {
+#ifdef LBER_ASSERT
+	assert(bv != NULL);			/* bv damn better point to something */
+#endif
 	if ( bv->bv_val != NULL )
 		free( bv->bv_val );
 	free( (char *) bv );
@@ -542,6 +577,9 @@ ber_bvecfree( struct berval **bv )
 {
 	int	i;
 
+#ifdef LBER_ASSERT
+	assert(bv != NULL);			/* bv damn better point to something */
+#endif
 	for ( i = 0; bv[i] != NULL; i++ )
 		ber_bvfree( bv[i] );
 	free( (char *) bv );
@@ -556,9 +594,18 @@ ber_bvdup( struct berval *bv )
 	    == NULL ) {
 		return( NULL );
 	}
+
+	if ( bv->bv_val == NULL ) {
+		new->bv_val = NULL;
+		new->bv_len = 0;
+		return ( new );
+	}
+
 	if ( (new->bv_val = (char *) malloc( bv->bv_len + 1 )) == NULL ) {
+		free( new );
 		return( NULL );
 	}
+
 	SAFEMEMCPY( new->bv_val, bv->bv_val, (size_t) bv->bv_len );
 	new->bv_val[bv->bv_len] = '\0';
 	new->bv_len = bv->bv_len;
diff --git a/libraries/liblber/io.c b/libraries/liblber/io.c
index b9cc3fe033d2a0c1f94978fc57bbe01baf853a4d..d54047750dbdc45a3c21b2c449a8771383bff64b 100644
--- a/libraries/liblber/io.c
+++ b/libraries/liblber/io.c
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ ber_dup( BerElement *ber )
 }
 
 
+/* OLD U-Mich ber_init() */
 void
 ber_init_w_nullc( BerElement *ber, int options )
 {
@@ -373,12 +374,79 @@ ber_init_w_nullc( BerElement *ber, int options )
 	ber->ber_options = (char) options;
 }
 
+/* New C-API ber_init() */
+/* This function constructs a BerElement containing a copy
+** of the data in the bv argument.
+*/
 BerElement *
 ber_init( struct berval *bv )
 {
-	return ( NULL );
+	BerElement *ber;
+
+	if ( bv == NULL ) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	ber = ber_alloc_t( 0 );
+
+	if( ber == NULLBER ) {
+		/* allocation failed */
+		return ( NULL );
+	}
+
+	/* copy the data */
+	if ( (ber_write ( ber, bv->bv_val, bv->bv_len, 0 )) != bv->bv_len ) {
+		/* write failed, so free and return NULL */
+		ber_free( ber, 1 );
+		return( NULL );
+	}
+
+	ber_reset( ber, 1 );	/* reset the pointer to the start of the buffer */
+
+	return ( ber );
 }
 
+/* New C-API ber_flatten routine */
+/* This routine allocates a struct berval whose contents are a BER
+** encoding taken from the ber argument.  The bvPtr pointer pointers to
+** the returned berval.
+*/
+int ber_flatten(
+	BerElement *ber,
+	struct berval **bvPtr)
+{
+	struct berval *bv;
+ 
+	if(bvPtr == NULL) {
+		return( -1 );
+	}
+
+	if ( (bv = malloc( sizeof(struct berval))) == NULL ) {
+		return( -1 );
+	}
+
+	if ( ber == NULL ) {
+		/* ber is null, create an empty berval */
+		bv->bv_val = NULL;
+		bv->bv_len = 0;
+
+	} else {
+		/* copy the berval */
+		ptrdiff_t len = ber->ber_ptr - ber->ber_buf;
+
+		if ( (bv->bv_val = (char *) malloc( len + 1 )) == NULL ) {
+			ber_bvfree( bv );
+			return( -1 );
+		}
+
+		SAFEMEMCPY( bv->bv_val, ber->ber_buf, (size_t)len );
+		bv->bv_val[len] = '\0';
+		bv->bv_len = len;
+	}
+    
+	*bvPtr = bv;
+	return( 0 );
+}
 
 void
 ber_reset( BerElement *ber, int was_writing )