The
format of dc=xxx, dc=yyy etc evolved from the traditional X. 500 naming
standard that involves OUs, Os and Cs. The idea is to create entries that
can easily be represented in a tree hierarchy and unless you are
thinking strictly within your organisation _only_ without any views of
ever connecting your organisation's LDAP tree with a wider (global?) tree
using the later dc would cause you great
headaches!
Think
about it, it might seem logical to say xyz.com at the root of your
tree however when you define entreis for say mary smity you will set her
DN as cn=mary, dc = xyz.com according to your suggestion... but then
why not just say
you see
what I am getting at... if you do that then you don't have a tree structure
anymore, instead you have a list of different entries all at the same
level. By the same token if your organisation and everybody else decide
they want their DN to be in the form of xyz.com then it is going to be much
more difficult to establish a tree hierarchy of distinct information at each
level.
Besides, I find
the proper notation more user-friendly and easy to get your head around
(especially when you are designing a new tree
structure).
this is my
humble opinion anyway...,
HTH,
Cheers,
Makisl.
-----Original
Message----- From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
[mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Paul
Duffy Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2000 5:28 PM To:
openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org Subject: Suffix format: "dc=xyz,
dc=com" or "dc=xyz.com" ?
Could somebody pro/con the two formats. It
seems more logical to myself to use the later. The former seems to imply
two distinct entries.