RFC 1384 (rfc1384) - Page 2 of 12
Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots
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RFC 1384 Naming Guidelines January 1993
organisation which operates in more than one country, but is not
supra-national. This classification includes the large commercial
organisations whose production and sales are spread throughout a
large number of countries.
International organisations, may be registered at the top level.
This will not be done for multi-national organisations. The only
international organisation registered so far is: Internet. This
is not a formal registration, but is adopted for the Internet
Directory Service.
Localities
A few localities will be registered under the root. The chief
purpose of these locality entries is to provide a "natural" parent
node for organisations which are supra-national, and yet which do
not have global authority in their particular field. Such
organisations will usually be governmental or quasi-governmental.
Example localities might include: Europe, Africa, West Indies.
Example organisations within Europe might include: European Court
of Justice, European Space Agency, European Commission.
DSA Information
Some information on DSAs may be needed at the top level. This
should be kept to a minimum.
The only directory information for which there is a recognised top
level registration authority is countries. Registration of other
information at the top level may potentially cause problems. At this
stage, it is argued that the benefits of additional top level
registration outweighs these problems. However, this potential
problem should be noted by anyone making use of such a registration.
2.2 The DNS within the DIT
The rules for the DNS parts of the DIT are defined in [3]. One
modification to this is that the DNS tree will be rooted under
"O=Internet", rather than at the root of the DIT.
2.3 Access control
An entry's object class attribute, and any attribute(s) used for
naming an entry are of special significance and may be considered to
be "structural". Any inability to access these attributes will often
militate against successful querying of the Directory. For example,
user interfaces typically limit the scope of their searches by
searching for entries of a particular type, where the type of entry
is indicated by its object class. Thus, unless the intention is to
bar public access to an entry or set of entries, the object class and
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