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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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