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Re: userid UID

The attribute type name string 'uniqueIdentifier' had been widely used for
the attribute defined in the 1274, published in 1991, with string syntax.  

X.500 defined its own attribute in X.521, published in 1993, with the name 
string 'uniqueIdentifier', a different OID and a different syntax.  

In order to prevent confusion with the installed base in X.500 pilots and 
LDAPv2, we called this new attribute defined by X.521(93) x500UniqueIdentifier.

Mark Wahl, Directory Product Architect
Innosoft International, Inc.