File formats:

Status:

HISTORIC (changed from DRAFT STANDARD)

Obsoletes:

RFC 1485

Obsoleted by:

RFC 2253, RFC 3494

Author:

S. Kille

Stream:

IETF

Source:

asid (app)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC1779

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Abstract

The OSI Directory uses distinguished names as the primary keys to entries in the directory. Distinguished Names are encoded in ASN.1. When a distinguished name is communicated between to users not using a directory protocol (e.g., in a mail message), there is a need to have a user-oriented string representation of distinguished name. This specification defines a string format for representing names, which is designed to give a clean representation of commonly used names, whilst being able to represent any distinguished name. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.