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Article #252[aus.net.directory.osi-ds] UFN and String Representation of DN
From: Steve Hardcastle-Kille
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 06:17
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 06:17
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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.
The following topics may be obtained from the info-server
using a request in the form:
request: osi-ds
topic: <one of topics the below>
For example:
From: Joe.Soap@somedomain
To: info-server@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Anything you like
request: osi-ds
topic: scope.txt
Files are available in Text, Postscript or both.
FILENAME.txt for plain text format
FILENAME.ps for postscript
Note that not all the files are available in all the formats.
All documents are numbered, in the form OSI-DS nnn or
OSI-DS-MINUTES nnn
The files are also available by FTP, NIFTP, and FTAM.
FTP to CS.UCL.AC.UK, username anonymous and your own name as password
cd osi-ds;
FTAM to bells, computer science, university college london, gb
username = anon, no password
NIFTP to uk.ac.ucl.cs, binary mode, username = guest,
password = (Your mail address in the form user@site)
filenames should be prepended with <OSI-DS> (Note that the
angle brackets and capital letters are vital)
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