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Re: Is there directory schema for storing information on States and Corporations?
I had that downloaded, but I didn't take the time to read the whole
standard. I am going to be sure to do that next time I had a question
like this.
Thanks for the reminder that using Geographic location is a poor way to
design a directory. I want mine to be more like an org chart that you
can dig a little deeper into.
The organization class is a really good start. I my want to sprinkle a
couple of non-standard attributes here or there, but there is probably
an auxiliary class I can throw in.
On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 15:05 +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
> John Lewis wrote:
> > I am bouncing around a couple of projects that involve collecting and
> > storing information about Corporations and States.
> >
> > Is there a already existing schema that will kind of fit this data in
> > general?
>
> There are many such schemas out there.
>
> As a starting point the LDAPv3 standard defines:
>
> object class 'country':
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4519#section-3.2
>
> object class 'organization':
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4519#section-3.8
>
> Some more in the COSINE LDAP/X.500 schema:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4524#section-3.6
>
> > The kind of data is going to be like taking the the top of of Corporations and State's
> > inetOrgPerson data and stuffing it under one tree and bundling public data with it
> > such as contracts a company have with a state on record.
>
> In general relying on geographic locations for structuring the directory information tree
> (DIT) like defined in X.521 already failed years ago. In niche use-cases it might work.
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>