RFC 3703 (rfc3703) - Page 1 of 61
Policy Core Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema
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Network Working Group J. Strassner
Request for Comments: 3703 Intelliden Corporation
Category: Standards Track B. Moore
IBM Corporation
R. Moats
Lemur Networks, Inc.
E. Ellesson
February 2004
Policy Core Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document defines a mapping of the Policy Core Information Model
to a form that can be implemented in a directory that uses
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) as its access protocol.
This model defines two hierarchies of object classes: structural
classes representing information for representing and controlling
policy data as specified in RFC 3060, and relationship classes that
indicate how instances of the structural classes are related to each
other. Classes are also added to the LDAP schema to improve the
performance of a client's interactions with an LDAP server when the
client is retrieving large amounts of policy-related information.
These classes exist only to optimize LDAP retrievals: there are no
classes in the information model that correspond to them.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................. 2
2. The Policy Core Information Model ............................ 4
3. Inheritance Hierarchy for the PCLS ........................... 5
4. General Discussion of Mapping the Information Model to LDAP .. 6
4.1. Summary of Class and Association Mappings .............. 7
4.2. Usage of DIT Content and Structure Rules and Name Forms. 9
4.3. Naming Attributes in the PCLS .......................... 10
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