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Re: base dn

At 01:26 PM 4/5/00 -0400, Mike Douglass wrote:
>I started off thinking
>   o=Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, c=US
>was the way to go.

If you register this with the appropriate naming authorities (ANSI for c=US)
of the X.500 global directory.

>Then I read a lot of the Stanford stuff (and others). That persuaded me that
>   dc=RPI, dc=edu
>was a good thing.

If you are responsible for rpi.edu, then no additional registration
is needed.  If not, see hostmaster of rpi.edu.

>
>Now I find that the Netscape documents seem to promote
>   o=Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>or is this just for their Certificate Management System?

I wouldn't recommend such a DN for a naming context even if your
directory was purely private.

>Will I run into problems with dc=rpi, dc=edu?

See past discussion for trade offs (you might check archives of
the ldap@umich.edu list)...

	Kurt