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Re: Models: aliases

At 03:15 AM 1/31/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>>> It seems rather heavy to force people to get their
>>> own OID and make new object classes just in order
>>> to use aliases, if extensibleObject is not supported
>>> on their server.
>> 
>> Some could publish a "Common subclasses of 'alias'"
>> technical specification....
>
>Good idea.  Though it seems enough with one subclass 'namedAlias'
>with several MAY attributes.

Actually, I think one would one to create one subclass of
alias for each class used in aliased object.  That is,
        personAlias, inetOrgPersonAlias, ...

not
        cnAlias

so that one can better place structure rules/name forms.

>...or a 'namedObject' auxiliary class with those MAY attributes.
>What's the advantage of a subclass over an auxiliary class?

structure rules/name forms.

Kurt