Re: o and c or dc?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <levitte@stacken.kth.se>]

In message <018501c3d9b8$b2bdd120$1801a8c0@CELLO> on Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:36:04 -0800, "Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com> said:

hyc> 
hyc> > -----Original Message-----
hyc> > From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
hyc> > [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Richard Levitte -
hyc> VMS Whacker
hyc> 
hyc> > In message
hyc> > <CB0BB0012D22D711BAA1000802584EF40259E5E9@it1msg10.italy.glaxo
hyc> > > on Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:28:33 -0000, "Voglmaier, Reinhard
hyc> > Erich" <rv33100@gsk.com> said:
hyc> >
hyc> > rv33100> actually there are three :
hyc> > rv33100>
hyc> > rv33100> *	the traditional style inherited from X.500:
hyc> > such as o=test,c=nl
hyc> > rv33100> *	the DNS style: o=test.nl
hyc> > rv33100> *	the domain component style: dc=test,dc=nl
hyc> >
hyc> > It's the first time I hear about that "DNS style".  What programs
hyc> > expect that, and is it (more or less) formally documented anywhere?
hyc> 
hyc> Ignore that "DNS style", it's a poor idea. It turns the
hyc> hierarchical DNS structure into a flat namespace, defeating the
hyc> purpose of both the LDAP and DNS data models...

Oh, trust me, I can see the problem.  I just wanted to know how much
this is actually used "out there", so that I would know what I'd have
to cope with...

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