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RE: o and c or dc?

To: "Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich" <rv33100@gsk.com>
Subject: RE: o and c or dc?
From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:35:03 -0500 (EST)
Cc: "'Geert Reijnders'" <reijnders@nlcom.nl>, <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <CB0BB0012D22D711BAA1000802584EF40259E5E9@it1msg10.italy.glaxo>

>actually there are three :
>
>*	the traditional style inherited from X.500: such as o=test,c=nl
>*	the DNS style: o=test.nl
>*	the domain component style: dc=test,dc=nl
>the second one fits quite well in DNS lookup mechanisms, the third one is
>the one used very frequently. There's however ( imho ) no technical reason (
>general vaild ) why to prefer one over the other. It depends heaviliy on
>your implementation and your IT infrastrucure,  .naming style , ....

And with rewriting rules it is possible to have all three!

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- RE: o and c or dc?
  - From: "Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich" <rv33100@gsk.com>

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