Network Working Group K. Zeilenga
Request for Comments: 3671 OpenLDAP Foundation
Category: Standards Track December 2003
Collective Attributes in
the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
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Abstract
X.500 collective attributes allow common characteristics to be shared
between collections of entries. This document summarizes the X.500
information model for collective attributes and describes use of
collective attributes in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol). This document provides schema definitions for collective
attributes for use in LDAP.
1. Introduction
In X.500 [X.500], a collective attribute is "a user attribute whose
values are the same for each member of an entry collection" [X.501].
This document details their use in the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP) [RFC 3377].
1.1. Entry Collections
A collection of entries is a grouping of object and alias entries
based upon common properties or shared relationship between the
corresponding entries which share certain attributes. An entry
collection consists of all entries within scope of a collective
attributes subentry [RFC 3672]. An entry can belong to several entry
collections.
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