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Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots

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Network Working Group                                          P. Barker
Requests for Comments 1384                     University College London
                                                   S.E. Hardcastle-Kille
                                                        ISODE Consortium
                                                            January 1993


                 Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard.  Distribution of this memo is
   unlimited.

Abstract

   Deployment of a Directory will benefit from following certain
   guidelines.  This document defines a number of naming guidelines.
   Alignment to these guidelines is recommended for directory pilots.

1  Introduction

   As a pre-requisite to this document, it is assumed that the COSINE
   and Internet X.500 Schema is followed [1].

2  DIT structure

   The majority of this document is concerned with DIT structure and
   naming for organisations, organisational units and personal entries.
   This section briefly notes three other key issues.

2.1  The top level of the DIT

   The following information will be present at the top level of the
   DIT:

   Participating Countries
      The entries should contain suitable values of the "Friendly
      Country" attribute.

   International Organisations
      An international organisation is an organisation, such as the
      United Nations, which inherently has a brief and scope covering
      many nations.  Such organisations might be considered to be
      supra-national and this, indeed, is the raison-d'etre of such
      organisations.  Such organisations will almost all be governmental
      or quasi-governmental.  A multi-national organisation is an



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