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RE: Ordering of RDN's within the DN



Title: RE: Ordering of RDN's within the DN

The ftp archive referenced in rfc1417 no longer contain the documents. 

Try: http://www.ten-34.net/np/ds/nadf.html

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Williams [mailto:peterw@valicert.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:00 AM
To: 'Covey, Carlin'; ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject: RE: Ordering of RDN's within the DN


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.