Re: LDAP directory schema.

[Mark Wilcox <mewilcox@unt.edu>]

The c (country) attribute value is dependent upon the ISO 2 letter
abbreviation. So you should have one for each country that you are providing
directory services to.

Instead of o=Organization Name, you may want to instead use the domain name of
the organization since this will gurantee uniqueness regardless of country. It
also helps prevent a situation where you might have 2 Smith Law Offices in the
same country and they are not the same organization.

Mark

Raj Kunjithapadam wrote:

> Hello All,
> This is about the schema for a global service provider.
> It is common for an organization to have the directory
> structure
> as cn=username,o=Organization,c=US
>
> But if you are an ISP within a country like US
> the structure could change to
> uid=userid1,o=Organization1,c=US
> uid=userid1,o=Organization2,c=US
> and so on.
>
> But what is the common practise or the correct stucture
> for multicountry service provider.
> If I have customers from Europe and Canada
> what should I do?
>
> Should I have a Directory server with mulitple
> Directory Information Trees?
>
> Like one for c=US, one for c=CA and so on?
>
> This would mean, I should deploy multiple
> servers for each directory enable application
> like Messaging.
>
> Does anyone have any experience deploying
> directory services for such a global provider.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Raj
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