Re: people CN

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Christian Huitema writes:
| 
| May I suggest that using a "Role" attribute would, in general, 
| be "a good thing"?
| Something like:
| 
| 	cn=Jacques Martin + Role=Director, O=FooBar, C=FR
| 
| would look quite reasonable, I think.
|

While it does indeed look reasonable, is human-acceptable .... It is a
nightmare to maintain.

A simple attribute such as "Department" (OU) within any organisation I
have worked is liable to change O(year/2), and role almost as
frequently.  Much as we would like to use this sort of thing for our
internal mail system, we find that the personal organizational # is the
only thing that gives mediun term stability.  Medium term stability is
essential where users of the service will cache a lookup ...  It's also
required for the case where an agent rather than the user directly or
semi-interactively will be making the search.

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