Subject: RE: Identifying directory namespace

From: "Hildebrand, Jeff" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 13:22:00 PDT

Mel,
I think your last solution is fine.  I Would like to modify the X500 part
slightly:

CM_X. 500_DN_SYNTAX -- Identifies a distinguished name.

CM_X.500_RDN_SYNTAX -- Identifies a relative distinguished name, see 
rationale below.

CM_X.500_OID_SYNTAX -- Identifies an object identifier, see rational below.

RDN:
It is impossible to tell from inspection if the name your looking at is an
entire name or a name fragment.  RDN (name fragments) will be one
way of naming a program that has universal appeal in specific population, 
i.e.,
aerospace, manufacturing etc.  This is used as a name within a firm's own
dit.  It is becoming common that organizations are not anchoring
names on ISO/CCITT, Country .. etc., but at the organization level, so a DN 
might
look like ou = Boeing, ou =747 ... etc., which by inspection would be taken 
as an RDN.

OID:
Object identifiers are a way of universally naming a program.  The OID could 
be a
an attributed attribute or a nonattributed attribute.  The DUA would have to 
have some local
knowledge on how to search for a match.  What it would require from the 
program is the
knowledge it was working with an object identifier.

If these are added, I see no objects from my end.
Thanks
Jeff