A String Representation of Distinguished Names

Abstract

Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME

“…It is recommended that the directory string format of RFC 1485 is used [24]. The User Friendly Name form of RFC 1484 may be used [25].…”

Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree

“…O/R Addresses are written in the standard X.400 Notation. Distinguished Names use the string representation of distinguished names defined in [3]. The keywords used for the attributes defined in this specification are given in Table 3.…”

The LDAP Application Program Interface

“…It returns a pointer to malloc'ed space that the caller should free by calling free() when it is no longer in use. Note the format of the DNs returned is given by [4].…”