Re: information

[Chris R. <Chr...@me...>]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:00:20 BST, John Berthels wrote:
> 
> > > cn= nora tahri, ou= diffusion, ou= banking, ou= DW, c= France, ou=intern, o=Enterprise
> 
> ...
> 
> > > And to know if I can have o= , o= ,(in this order) or if o= is only
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > one time in the dn.
> > 
> > You can have any number according to the standards.
> > 
> > You may find problems with one or more server implementations - did you 
> > have any particular server in mind?
> 
> I don't know of a standards reference off the top of my head, but isn't
> there an X.500 facility whereby you can restrict the order in which object
> classes may occur in the heirarchy? (Structure rules? Something like that)

Yep, structure rules are the ones.

> Typically they require things like 'country' only at top level, 'org unit'
> only below 'org' etc.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that:
> 
> a) They are optional (i.e. servers need not implement them)
> b) only X.500 servers might care, and several (all? most?) won't care.
> 
> Anyone care to refresh my memory?
> 
> jb
> 

Both a) and b) are correct, at least most servers basically allow 
anything anywhere.

I've only heard of one vendor ever implementing them, and that was 
probably just so they could tick the appropriate box in a questionnaire 
:-)

Cheers,

Chris