RFC 1255 (rfc1255) - Page 2 of 25

A Naming Scheme for c=US

RFC 1255                A Naming Scheme for c=US          September 1991


   6.2 Persons .............................................   16
   7 Usage Examples ........................................   17
   7.1 Organizations with National-Standing ................   17
   7.2 Organizations with Regional-Standing ................   18
   7.3 Organizations with Local-Standing ...................   19
   7.4 Organizations with Foreign-Standing .................   20
   7.5 Persons .............................................   21
   8 Bibliography ..........................................   22
   Appendix A: Revision History of this Scheme .............   22
   Security Considerations .................................   25
   Author's Address ........................................   25

                         A Naming Scheme for c=US
                    The North American Directory Forum
                  Supercedes: NADF-166, 143, 123, 103, 71
                               July 12, 1991

1.  Introduction

   Computer networks form the infrastructure between the users they
   interconnect, and networks are built on an underlying naming and
   numbering infrastructure, usually in the form of names and addresses.
   For example, some authority must exist to assign network addresses to
   ensure that numbering collisions do not occur.  This is of paramount
   importance for an environment which consists of multiple service
   providers.

2.  Approach

   It should be observed that there are several different naming
   universes that could be used in the Directory Information Tree (DIT).
   For example, geographical naming, community naming, political naming,
   organizational naming, and so on.  The choice of naming universe
   largely determines the difficulty in mapping a user's query into a
   series of Directory operations to find useful information.  Although
   it is possible to simultaneously support multiple naming universes
   with the DIT, this is likely to be unnatural.  As such, this scheme
   focuses on a single naming universe.

   The naming universe in this scheme is based on civil authority.  That
   is, it uses the existing civil naming infrastructure and suggests a
   (nearly) straight-forward mapping on the DIT.  An important
   characteristic is that entries can be listed wherever searches for
   them are likely to occur.  This implies that a single object may be
   listed as several separate entries.






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