Re: Use of dnQualifier must be settled

Ella Paton Bassett <egardner@mitre.org> Tue, 16 November 1999 15:37 UTC

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Folks:

I've suggested to Hoyt Kesterson and Sharon Boeyen that we consider
slipping a new attribute definition into the FPDAM for X.509 but haven't
heard from them.

 uniqueIdentity ATTRIBUTE        ::=     {
        WITH SYNTAX                     DirectoryString
        EQUALITY MATCHING RULE          caseIgnoreMatch
        ORDERING MATCHING RULE          caseIgnoreOrderingMatch
        SUBSTRINGS MATCHING RULE        caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
        ID                              id-at-uniqueIdentity }

The uniqueIdentity attribute type provides an unambiguous identity that
may be used as an RDN or in combination with another attribute as an
RDN.

Ella