UFN and String Representation of DN

[Steve Hardcastle-Kille <[e-mail]>]

A revised version of the String Representation of DN is available from
the UCL archives, and is being submitted as an I-D.   This contains
the edits agreed in San Diego.

Dave, Erik,

The WG recommended that this I-D and the User Friendly Naming I-D (no
changes required) be submitted as RFCs.   The String form should be
proposed standard, and the UFN experimental.   


Steve





OSI-DS 23
osi-ds-23-02.ps
osi-ds-23-02.txt
        A String Representation of Distinguished Names
        S.E. Hardcastle-Kille
        April 1992
        Abstract:
The OSI Directory uses distinguished names as the primary keys to
entries in the directory.  Distinguished Names are encoded in ASN.1.
When a distinguished name is communicated between to users not using a
directory protocol (e.g., in a mail message), there is a need to have
a user-oriented string representation of distinguished name.




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