RE: Ordering of RDN's within the DN

[Peter Williams <peterw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NADF was one standards organization (defunct, but at one
time respected by our leaders) that specifies a naming architecture
that structures and organizes certain namespaces, by RDN. The
architecture was founded on the need for cooperative
management of a shared namespace by competitive providers. The
NBDF addressed the issues in focus in a public directory in which 
otherwise privately-managed names(disclosing considerable intelligence 
about a company) would be partially disclosed.

NADF essentially specified a "Bridge-Directory". There
was a specific naming concept that interact with PKI
DN naming - where cert DNs and directory DNs are not
the same, to accomodate realworld needs for name
management and name distribution privacy requirements.

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1417.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Covey, Carlin [mailto:ccovey@cylink.com]
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:58 AM
To: ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject: Ordering of RDN's within the DN


Does anyone know of a standard ordering for the RDN's for locality, state,
and postalCode when they appear in a DN?

- Carlin Covey
  Cylink Corp.